Cd Rom Not Recognised
Jul 27, 2006
My son purchased a 'NEW and LEGAL' game called warcraft 3. The game installed ok (presumably) When he clicks play the cd spins for a couple of minutes and then we get the message '' check cd is in drive and click retry'. I have searched the net and tried all info I have found but to no avail. Even went through Blizzard.nets 12 step troubleshooter for this problem. The disk drive is fine with all other games and the game is fine when tested on a friends comp. I have win xp home and virus free, adaware done.Obviously there is some setting on my comp that is causing this and I am lost as to where to look next. Some security setting that is clashing with it? I have noticed there is c-dilla? on the system and that is a copy protection program, could this cause problems. As I said the game is genuine and would prefer a comp fix other than a nocd crack.This is day six of trying, my son is 'over it' but I cant let the comp win any help would be appreciated.
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Jun 15, 2008
My password (administrator) and wife's password are not being recognized, therefore we cannot log onto windows. We are certain the correct passwords are being entered. My password includes an uppercase "U" but I noticed that when I hit shift+U a charecter is not entered and the cursor moves one space left. When I strike U with the capslock on a charecter is entered but the password is still not recognized. I tried to boot into safe mode but I am still required to enter a password and encounter the same problems.
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Since upgrading to XP Pro from W2K a few weeks back my CDR and DVD drives are no longer recognised. In device manager an exclamation shows and I've been unable to find either an XP or more up to date driver. The drives in question are the NEC NR-7800A and NEC DV-5800A (In a Dell Dimesion 4300 machine) Does anyone have any idea on how I might approach getting these drives operating again
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Aug 8, 2005
Main computer in home on Comcast cable..........CD/RW suddenly was not recognized and internet stopped working. Switched out modem, still no internet. Comcast tech came out, ran everthing to his computer and internet worked. Plugged modem in via USB and tried to load USB drivers, but no CD/RW...I took CD to secondary computer (hooked up to the main by wireless connection) to download drivers onto a floppy and THIS CD/RW would not recognize the data CD.......in explorer it showed the D: drive but would not read the data CD...I put in a music CD and in explorer it showed everything listed on the CD...........
CD/RW worked briefly on main computer (long enough to load the USB drivers), and even connected to Internet via USB in the modem.....but again, the CD/RW quit and the internet connection was lost again. Do you make any sense of this? I'm so tired of all of it.
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I want to format my HHD and reinstall XP Pro but my system says the HHD
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Apr 25, 2005
I have a 60GB Seagate HDD running Windows XP, which when connected as the Master Drive will no longer boot Windows. Instead I get an error screen reading "Disk Boot Failure - Insert System Disk and Press Enter."The drive is recognised by the BIOS approximately 1/4 of the time I have it plugged in. I have attempted to run the drive as a slave to my current HD on the same motherboard which I am running at the moment to no avail. I have tried using the program "GetDataBack for NTFS" which failed to recognise the drive.
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