re: CD drive not working
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 3:03 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Dunn
(911 messages posted)
Drive may have died - they do. Can you boot from a CD (eg, XP install disk) - that
would test if it works ok outside windows. If yes, then almost certainly a windows
config issue. If no, then drive probaly needs replacing.
PS. Have you checked the connecting cables (IDE/SATA) are not loose?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:35 pm, sqs103 wrote:
>After upgrading to iTunes 8, my CD drive (TEAC DW-224E-B) has stopped recognizing
>cds. The drive is showing up on "My Computer", where it seems to be working properly
>and is showing up on Device manager, where, there are no errors.
>Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes has not helped. iTunes was giving an error
message,
>which said that registry values for importing and burning cds are missing and that
>iTunes needs to be reinstalled. However, that message went away when I changed the
>UpperFilters value to GEARAspiWDM (with carriage return). CD drive drivers seem
to
>be working.
>I also tried booting the computer in safe mode. Once again the drive showed up in
>My Computer, but failed to recognize cds.
>Could someone help me fix the problem? Thanks.
>
>System info: Fujitsu S6231, Windows XP SP 3.
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