Cdrom Nightmare
Jan 16, 2005
She has auto updates turned on for her WindowsXP Home, so when SP 2 was released she got it installed.
Since then neither CD drive has worked. So I went over last night to help her. Dell has a pretty handy little maintenance utility partition that you can access from the bootup menu. It has some little self tests and such for verifying hardware. It is able to read the drives fine, so no hardware issues there.If I boot to the recovery console, the drives will talk. But if I boot to windows I get an error code 31 in the device manager and the don't load.Prior to this morning I didn't know about the UpperFilters and LowerFilters settings that can fix this very issue. At the time I figured something had just gotten screwed up with SP2. I have an XP Home with SP2 cd, so I tried to do a repair installation.
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May 17, 2009
First off I am a power user and there is rarely a problem I cannot fix, so you can probably reserve any Tier type fixes. Desktops all running Windows XP SP3
of them are HP Pavilions, mine is custom built with ASUS mobo I've been through 6 different routers of 3 different brands and styles, because it SEEMS like a router issue but it simply cannot be after that many replacements.
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Apr 9, 2010
Well i just reformated my whole pc to get rid of some viruses. But now my drivers have become way out of date. ive easily managed to update my graphics card drivers but i cant find anything else for the rest of my devices. Ive heard of programs that do this for you. Does anyone now of any good FREE driver updating software?
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Apr 19, 2007
Tried the cmd command you suggested for corrupt info file, 4 files still there. I've tryed crap cleaner, reg cleaner, spybot, restoring the registry, Still same result, Please help. At least now I have it where if I delete a file it will delete the ones I put in now but still leaves them 4, before it kept adding before I used all them methods and I got rid of my Norton SystemWorks as well as tryed NukeZilla
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Jun 4, 2010
i've gotta phillips mt1600 running on windows xp media centre 2005 edition and one day i tried to turn my pc on but it got to the point of loading up just before it shows the users and it rebooted, i do not know why? And if left to its own devices would do this all day, i've tried booting from cdrom drive and no joy but i've lost my recovery disk and really in a muddle as i'm basically computer novice any ideas what i can do to fix this i don't care about losing everything i just wanna start from scratch, my friend has windows 7 disk for me to install but i don't know how to remove my windows to be able to install windows 7.
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Aug 8, 2007
This is a NEC ND-3520AW. Worked fine until ? I don't think I installed anything or saw any other contributing factor.
1. The main problem is if I insert a known good CD, when I open the drive which is the D drive in this case it shows no contents. If I take the same CD to another computer and open it I see folders, files, etc.
2. I can write to the drive on a CDR or CDRW fine using Nero.
3. I can boot from the drive using an Ubuntu or other boot disk.
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May 11, 2005
I'm kinda new to XP seeing that i'm a mac user only but my parents bought a PC with XP so i'm stuck using it sometimes, well my problem is all of a sudden i go to use the computer and the computer can';t find either of the CD ROMS, the DVD-RW or the CD-ROm, I went into device manager and it has the "!" beside both, so i reinstalled the drivers for both and got something to the effect of "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)", i've tried every trick i know but like i said i'm not good with windows, so any advice is much appricated, THe dvd-rw is an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104 and the other is ASUS CD-S400/A.
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Dec 30, 2009
How can I remove a incorrect icon for my cdrom drives
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Dec 4, 2004
XP home-- CDROM will only play Shadowbane game disk--any other disk pop up window --install CD--comes up. Also had window I/O device not acessible pop up. used windows troubleshooter had RED Triangle pop up.Malevalent program installed
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Aug 22, 2007
I had tried booting the XP cd from the CDROM but it will result in a screen containing some message by Caldera Dr-Dos. It states that there is a program that is faulty. Therefore, what can I do to solve this problem for I intended to format my c:.
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Jul 31, 2005
I've tried googling, I've tried driver-guide and I tried just about every place I can think of but for the
life of me, I just cannot seem to install this CDRom in WinXp SP2. Every time the computer reboots it finds this new hardware and cannot find the drivers anywhere! Internet or on my computer.It just can't find them. I've gone to Lite-On Site but with no luck. I would just toss this piece of out the window and just get a new one but the fact that it finds it tells me that it does works. My DVD-ROM has no problem.
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Dec 16, 2009
I have an odd problem. My CDROM remains open all time. Even when I try to close it it reopen again. It's very annoying since I cannot install any software using CD.
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Sep 16, 2005
I have downloaded Windows XP Home Edition Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install from the MSDN download centre.I have run the executable WinXP_EN_Home_BF.exe and produced the 6 Startup floppy disks.When I boot my PC using the startup floppy disks I get the following error on disk #5 "Corrupt CDRom.sys"Where can I get a version that works error free?
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Oct 13, 2006
Its been happening for maybe a month now, whenever i put a game CD in the computer, sometimes it runs fine, and sometimes it dosen't, its like a 90/10 chance that it will screw up.Whenever i place a cd and it DOES screw up, here is what happens, first it will make the loading noises, fans get noisy, etc. as Usual, then suddenly, i hear a 'click' noise, a familier noise that i hear when i hit the 'Reset' button on the case.So when i hear the click when i loaded the game up, after a few seconds, the mouse stops moving, and then the sound goes off, and it sounds as if the harddrive is making the same sounds as it does when it restarts but the screen is frozen on what it was last viewing.So, basically, the computer makes restarting-like noises nearly everytime i put a cd in the cdrom drive and freezes, and i have to shut it down w/ the button on the case.
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Oct 21, 2002
When booting from an old Windows 98 bootdisk to install Windows XP (with slipstreamed SP1) I allways got this message: "Setup was unable to copy cdrom.sys".The problem was known at Microsoft (knowledge base) and they even got a solution for it (dude!).In the config.sys on your disk there will be a line somewhat like this: "device= /d:cdrom" simply change the cdrom to something else like : "device=..... /d:DVDRAM" and it will work.
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May 9, 2008
I have a gateway desktop with two harddrives. neither of them have OS on them. I am trying to install windows XP pro. but my CDROM drives will not read the disk.
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Feb 13, 2006
i need some help to install win xp at my sister notebook. The problem is her notebook does'nt have floppy & cdrom drive. Actually this notebook already xp in it but many problem occur (always freeze) and i decide to format and reinstall xp back Is that possible to format/install notebook from other than floppy & cdrom?
If it so then how?Anyway, the notebook model is
Acer Travelmate 340T
Pentium 3, 128 memory
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Nov 26, 2006
I haven't posted in a while cause my computer has been running just great thanks to all I know this computer is a cheap one but it has been good for a long time.Here's what is happening when I turn on puter all I get is two screensI entered the bios to see if maybe I could boot from cdrom and maybe install xp again'but I can't even do that cause I can't get past these two screens.I'm attaching the photos here.
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Jan 6, 2008
i have a toshiba laptop with no cdrom. it will not boot from an external. the only way i can reinstall windows is to set up a partition and put the windows files on it. similar to a backup partition for dells. can anyone tell me the steps to do this correctly.
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Aug 12, 2002
If you install Nero 5.5.5.1 on an XP machine that has MusicMatch Jukebox (MMJB) 6.X installed, you will experience the "lost CDROM drives" syndrome. This is apparently caused by conflicting CD burning drivers in Nero and MMJB. Uninstalling MMJB 6.X solves the problem with the lost drives and allows you to use Nero. Once MMJB 6.X is uninstalled, you can then install MMJB version 7.0, and you will have full functionality in both Nero and MusicMatch Jukebox.
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May 17, 2007
I did a system restore on my laptop after recklessly cleaning files off of my hard drive. Since then I can't access my d:/, so I can't reinstall anything, including my internet and Microsoft Office software. If I look in the control panel I can see everything (I didn't lose any personal files), but D: always comes up as D:/RECOVERY, then fiendishly warns me not to look inside (which I haven't).
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Aug 23, 2006
During the initial Windows XP setup, is it possible to copy the files from the CDROM to the HDD and then continue installation from the HDD? I have seen this done with Windows 98 via the command prompt, assuming it can be done with XP aswell, but after looking through Microsoft.com for 5 minutes I gave up searching
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Jul 28, 2005
Is it possible to get the BIOS damaged?If yes, how to check it is damaged or not?
Is it possible to boot without any OS?I just want to access the BIOS setting.I use the OS saved in the floppy to boot up the computer, only once in a while can boot it up.The same happens for boot from CDROM.
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