LAZY cd rom drives

BogOak

My cd-rom drives (2 of them) on my WinXP computer seem to have suddenly become lazy. They can't copy files over onto the hard drive without hanging half way or giving a 'read-cylinder error' or some such thing. It's as if they give up or lose touch with the data mid-way through. The writer drive can still write cds perfectly but you can't read from cds.

Anyone any clues?

irishgeo

my laptop cd rom cant be bothered to ead the name of the ew cd and just uses the last one. the only way to gte it to read the new name is to reboot.

aidan_walsh

Originally posted by BogOak
My cd-rom drives (2 of them) on my WinXP computer seem to have suddenly become lazy. They can't copy files over onto the hard drive without hanging half way or giving a 'read-cylinder error' or some such thing. It's as if they give up or lose touch with the data mid-way through. The writer drive can still write cds perfectly but you can't read from cds.

Anyone any clues?

Go to your local music store and get yourself a CD cleaner... Should be able to pick one up for less than a fiver.

Also, check the disks you're using to make sure that they aren't scratched or dirty...

BogOak

Thanks but that's not what's wrong. Both drives failed at the same time. One is 4 years old and the other is 4 months old...

hostyle

Originally posted by irishgeo
my laptop cd rom cant be bothered to ead the name of the ew cd and just uses the last one. the only way to gte it to read the new name is to reboot.

Re-enable insert notification for your CD-ROM.

For a once off solution: right click on the cd-rom, click properties, click OK. Hit F5. You'll have to do that for every CD though.

ColmOT [MSFT]

BogOak, your isue is related to the CD media rather than the drive itself I reckon. Have you verified that the CD works in another drive/PC?

CRC errors generally point to a CD that wasn't burnt correctly, or have corrupt data.

daire

Hi, I was posting under Bog Oak's name by mistake. Anyway...

Funny you should say that because I've realised that it only happens on certain burnt cds. But the cds work perfectly in all other (3) computers I've tried them in. So is the drive just not able to handle those cds? Doesn't make sense seeing as both drives on this one computer refuse to read them properly?

It's a real headache... any ideas?

hostyle

Did you use packet-writing to burn these CDs? Try installing UDF drivers on the machine they don't work on.

daire

I didn't write them so possibly. Where would I get these UDF drivers?