Office Hours 4: CD-ROM won't read CDs in Windows!

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited October 2008 in Science & Tech
Icrontic is proud to reintroduce the Office Hours series of articles. Each week we'll take a look at a common problem in Windows or often-used software and nail down a quick fix for it. This week we explore the case of the incredible disappearing optical drives.



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  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    Great info, Thrax!

    Are there three other Office Hours articles somewhere?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    There are! I have gone back and renamed all the old articles, and properly tagged them. You can see the prior articles here: http://icrontic.com/tag/office-hours
  • madugan
    edited October 2008
    If there are no error messages and no exclamation points in the device manager, just the computer telling me to insert a disk when there is a disk (for one drive) and simply not recognizing that there is anything in the drive (for the other drive), do you think the same fix is appropriate?

    Windows XP, Service Pack 3, problem came shortly after the SP3 upgrade, on BOTH of my computers. Drives are recognized in Safe Mode, but won't allow me to transfer files onto CD-RW (even in Safe Mode, tells me to insert CD in that situation). In Safe Mode, will show me data on an already-created disk, play music, etc. Dell insists I must re-install the OS. Don't want to do that if I can help it.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    Give it a shot, Madugan. You certainly can't hurt anything by going forward with this fix. At worst, you're in the same spot, at best, you're in the clear. :)
  • ginbong
    edited October 2008
    Hi, I need help. I have a Samsung 203B DVD writer.

    It would randomly disappear so after a reboot it fixes itself.

    But I decided to try your regedit and nothing happened.

    Until I came home early today. My drive doesn't show up anymore. Even after a reboot.

    Also before it just started burning slowly over 45mins but i installed the latest samsung firmware and it fixed itself. But that was over a month ago though.

    Any replies would be welcome thanks
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