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New DVD-ROM drive does not read some (but not all) commercial CDs

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geojoy

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My new Hitachi GD-8000 DVD ROM Drive has read all the DVDs that I've fed it, but refuses to read about half of the CDs that I have tried. Many of these failed discs are commercial CDs and not CD-R or CD-RW media. The light on the drive comes on after inserting the disc, and after a few seconds later the light turns off. The volume lable or the directory information of the disc however never shows up in explorer. Double clicking on it, pops up the standard Windows Me error message box when there is no disc in the drive These same discs can however be read without trouble on my CD burner.

Did I get a defective drive that demands a warranty return or can I make a change in my installation to resolve this problem? All help is appreciated.

My System setup:

MB: ABIT KG-7 (4J Bios)
CPU: Athlon 1.4 GHz @ FSB 266 (not overclocked)
Memory: 256 MB CAS 2.5 DDRAM
Primary IDE Channel: Hard Drive (right now an old clunker until my WD 30 Gig ATA 100 replacement arrives)
Secondary IDE Chanel: Acer CDR 8x4x32 (Master)
Hitachi GD-8000 DVD-ROM (Slave)
OS: Windows Me

All cables are 80 conductor and drives are all autodetected and set to the highest transfer mode automatically.
 
Probably nothing wrong with your system at all. Many new commercial CDs have a copy protection feature that prevents them from being played or read in a computer. There are a lot of articles on this around the boards . . . do a search for COPY PROTECTION . . . this is mainly music CDs and some CDs for proprietary game consoles. Likewise some of the newer DVD/CD drives respect that by agreement while older drives do not.
 
The rejected CDs are not game and music CDs with copy protection. Neither are they copies of copies. An example of rejected CDs are the Logitech Trackman Marble setup CD and the Windows 98 CD. The accepted CDs are the ASUS GeForce 2 setup CD and and the Windows Me CD. Most of my home burned CD-Rs and CD-RWs are read just fine. As you can see, there appears to be no pattern to what is read and what is rejected. The same CDs fail to be read each time. The CDs are not scratched or damaged in any way that I can see. I believe that my drive is defective in some mysterious way and I am going to send it back.
 
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