CD-Rom drive driving me CRAZY!!!!!

dragonfall1221

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Aug 31, 2004
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Hello,

I posted a topic concerning my drive a few months ago, but nothing has helped. I'm running a Toshiba Satellite 1415-S115 with Windows XP. My problem is that my drive spins up, acts like its reading for about three seconds, then stalls out while the little light stays on without blinking. I've gone into my computers Component Services program and found these error messages in connection to my Cdrom/dvd drive:

The device, \Device\CdRom3, has a bad block
An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom3 during a paging operation.
The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service entered the stopped state.

I've also attached an old Cdrom drive externally, which works fine. my system information for both of them is this:

Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type CD-ROM
Name HP CD-Writer+ 7500 1.0a
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate Not Available
SCSI Target ID 1
PNP Device ID SCSI\CDROMHP______CD-WRITER+_7500_1.0A\6&38BCD612&0&0010
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 48.38 KB (49,536 bytes), 8/17/2001 6:52 AM)

Drive D:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type CD-ROM
Name MATSHITA UJDA730 DVD/CDRW
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate Not Available
SCSI Target ID 0
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMMATSHITA_UJDA730_DVD/CDRW_______________1.00____\5&296A1BDD&0&0.0.0
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 48.38 KB (49,536 bytes), 8/17/2001 6:52 AM)

Does anyone know what all that means? And a way to fix it? I've tried uninstalling and rebooting my system, but I get the same error messages in my log. I'm broke, I cant afford to go and buy another multifunction drive!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated.


 

HermDogg

Golden Member
Jul 29, 2004
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If the device has a bad block, I really don't know what you can do. How old is it, still under warranty?
 

ronach

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Oct 9, 1999
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Will the faulty Cdrom drive read nothing, or just older cdroms and not newer ones ? Find a new bios and try it. Open the drive bay and blow into it real hard, maybe some dust got in there and is friggin it up.