CD rom bad????

BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
edited December 2003 in Hardware
As the first step in reprograming my pc for a dual boot setup, I'm trying to install Win98 (not SE). During the instalation, I get an error message that it cant find SECUR32.DLL on the D drive (D drive is cdrom). As it gets int the finial stages of programing, I get CDCACHE ERROR "ILLEGAL OPERATION". When I do get to win98 and try to install the MOBO drivers, I get "STREAM READ ERROR". What the f is going on? My Win98 cd is like new, clean, no smudges or scratches. Is my Cd rom drive crapping out on me???? I've tried about 5 times now and keep getting.........nowhere Bruce:mad:

Comments

  • citrixmetacitrixmeta Montreal, Quebec Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    yikes! :<

    well, have you installed other OS's with that cdrom?
    can u try that win98 cd on another pc? just copy+paste the content of that win98cd to a temp folder on the c:\

    see if it fully transfers with no errors.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2003
    sounds like your cd-rom may be failing. Go with citrixmeta's suggestion. Copy the entire cd to the HDD and see if it copies over fine.
  • BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
    edited December 2003
    I tried to copy WIN98 cd to my XFiles folder and got a message, "cannot read source....", SO I then tried a different cd and got the same message. AH-HA I swapped out my 56X cdrom and put in a 72X cdrom and all is working well now. I guess something must have gone south for the winter with that drive................Thanks Guys Bruce:D :D
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2003
    Typically what happens when a cd fail are this....the laser gets knocked out of alighnment just from general wear and tair or a build up of dust in and around the lens. The other thing that can happen (use to be more of a problem on older cd-roms and cheaper ones) is that from use it heats up and the spring inside that keeps the arm at the right level weekens so it starts to not read the inner and outer rings of the disk. Not that it helps you at all just more of an FYI
  • BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
    edited December 2003
    It was a 52x Asus drive, maybe 1 1/2 years old. I still have it and may open it up for a "lookie see". I put in a second hand Kenwood 72x and with intermitent quirkyness, I've learned theres a firmwhere upgrade for it. I DL'd it but havent installed it yet. Might wait till this Monday when a Win95 OSR2 is being delivered. I have to use OSR2 because of my AMD 1.4ghz cpu.
    ANYHOW Thank You for the help......Bruce
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