CD ROM drive playing up in XP
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Morning everybody, I posted this elsewhere but perhaps someone here can help, I sure hope so as its driving me nuts!...
I was running Windows 2000 on it until my copy of XP arrived yesterday. Of course I was very exited as this is meant to be the best!
I installed XP by completely formatting the HD so it would be a nice fresh installation.
Now, the installation goes fine, no problems there at all. But, the CD drive will not work properly after installation of XP. The drive appears in My Computer, and when you insert a CD, the label appears correctly, but the icon (if applicable) just shows as the default icon (Not the icon for a CD ROM drive, but the same icon you see if a file type isn't registered).
Even the XP CD itself doesn't work! If you open the icon to display the contents, the CD spins up in the drive, and after a minute or so, the contents is displayed. But you can't run any of the exe's and access to the drive is VERY slow (about 60 secs or so to do anything at all with it).
I can copy small files (e.g. the couple of HTML files in the root of the CD) to the HD. But any bigger files I get an error saying "Cannot copy <filename>: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
If I boot into Safe Mode, the CD drive works fine, all files can be accessed, copied or executed.
So, just to recap finally - the CD drive worked fine in Windows 2000 and also in my old machine which was running ME. It installs XP perfectly but won't work in normal mode, but does work in Safe Mode.
I hope I've given enough info, and I hope someone out there has some help as I'm getting rather narked at my nice new computer not wanting to play ball.
Sorry for the very long first post, I look forward to seeing what you all think of this!
Thanks in advance
Leo
I was running Windows 2000 on it until my copy of XP arrived yesterday. Of course I was very exited as this is meant to be the best!
I installed XP by completely formatting the HD so it would be a nice fresh installation.
Now, the installation goes fine, no problems there at all. But, the CD drive will not work properly after installation of XP. The drive appears in My Computer, and when you insert a CD, the label appears correctly, but the icon (if applicable) just shows as the default icon (Not the icon for a CD ROM drive, but the same icon you see if a file type isn't registered).
Even the XP CD itself doesn't work! If you open the icon to display the contents, the CD spins up in the drive, and after a minute or so, the contents is displayed. But you can't run any of the exe's and access to the drive is VERY slow (about 60 secs or so to do anything at all with it).
I can copy small files (e.g. the couple of HTML files in the root of the CD) to the HD. But any bigger files I get an error saying "Cannot copy <filename>: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
If I boot into Safe Mode, the CD drive works fine, all files can be accessed, copied or executed.
So, just to recap finally - the CD drive worked fine in Windows 2000 and also in my old machine which was running ME. It installs XP perfectly but won't work in normal mode, but does work in Safe Mode.
I hope I've given enough info, and I hope someone out there has some help as I'm getting rather narked at my nice new computer not wanting to play ball.
Sorry for the very long first post, I look forward to seeing what you all think of this!
Thanks in advance
Leo
Nice one 
I changed that setting but now its playing silly buggars and turns the monitor off when it boots into XP. Great!
ARGH!!!!!
edit -- 2 minutes later...
WAA-HOOO!! It works! Aldi I owe you one. I was up till about 2am trying to figure that out. Thankyou, thankyou, a thousand times THANKYOU!
>> Edited by leozwalf on Wednesday 31st August 13:08
I changed that setting but now its playing silly buggars and turns the monitor off when it boots into XP. Great!
ARGH!!!!!
edit -- 2 minutes later...
WAA-HOOO!! It works! Aldi I owe you one. I was up till about 2am trying to figure that out. Thankyou, thankyou, a thousand times THANKYOU!
>> Edited by leozwalf on Wednesday 31st August 13:08
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