Description of the problem:
OK. Well, I don't often use my cdrom/writer but when I do its usually for a good reason. This time, it was installing my copy of Mechwarrior 2 so I could take a drive down memory lane. Anyways, I pop that bad boy in and my cdrom drive starts spinning, and then it spins faster and faster and faster until it finally slows down. I look at my D drive and its empty. I try a different CD, same thing happens. I try a music CD, same thing happens. I open up my PC, double check that my HD is set to master and CDRW set to slave. Check. So, instead of having both drives on different cables, I put them on the same one. Restart the computer, pop in a couple different CD's, and still nothing.
Now, I recently (yesterday) downloaded a registry cleaner and used it. There were no problems with anything else after I used it and restarted, although I suspect it may have done something to my cdrom because I didn't test it before/after the reg cleanout. So I decided to restore all the deleted registry entries (the program has this feature). I restart my computer and BAM, now my CDROM doesn't even exist! Windows doesn't see it at all. I restart again and check my Bios, my bios sees the CDrom, but when its detecting the drives at the beginning I noticed some exclamation marks and around four numbers after the CDroms name. It goes by the screen so fast that its impossible to catch exactly what it says.
Update - OK, so i've put the CDRom and HD back on seperate cables, and i've changed the power plug that the CDrom uses to no avail. I do, however now see my D drive again, but the cdrom drive still doesn't play cd's.
Recent changes: Other than the Reg Clean, none.
Computer Specs:
AMD64 3000+
Maxtor 20gb 7200 IDE
Geforce 6600GT AGP
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
OCZ Performance 512mb PC3200 DDR
Sound Blaster Audigy LS
LG 16x10x40x HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B CDrom/Burner
Operating System: Windows XP SP2
OK. Well, I don't often use my cdrom/writer but when I do its usually for a good reason. This time, it was installing my copy of Mechwarrior 2 so I could take a drive down memory lane. Anyways, I pop that bad boy in and my cdrom drive starts spinning, and then it spins faster and faster and faster until it finally slows down. I look at my D drive and its empty. I try a different CD, same thing happens. I try a music CD, same thing happens. I open up my PC, double check that my HD is set to master and CDRW set to slave. Check. So, instead of having both drives on different cables, I put them on the same one. Restart the computer, pop in a couple different CD's, and still nothing.
Now, I recently (yesterday) downloaded a registry cleaner and used it. There were no problems with anything else after I used it and restarted, although I suspect it may have done something to my cdrom because I didn't test it before/after the reg cleanout. So I decided to restore all the deleted registry entries (the program has this feature). I restart my computer and BAM, now my CDROM doesn't even exist! Windows doesn't see it at all. I restart again and check my Bios, my bios sees the CDrom, but when its detecting the drives at the beginning I noticed some exclamation marks and around four numbers after the CDroms name. It goes by the screen so fast that its impossible to catch exactly what it says.
Update - OK, so i've put the CDRom and HD back on seperate cables, and i've changed the power plug that the CDrom uses to no avail. I do, however now see my D drive again, but the cdrom drive still doesn't play cd's.
Recent changes: Other than the Reg Clean, none.
Computer Specs:
AMD64 3000+
Maxtor 20gb 7200 IDE
Geforce 6600GT AGP
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
OCZ Performance 512mb PC3200 DDR
Sound Blaster Audigy LS
LG 16x10x40x HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B CDrom/Burner
Operating System: Windows XP SP2
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