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PC incorrectly detecting cd-rom drive.

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Stinkfinger

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I bought a generic cd-rom drive from my local pc shop today and after it installed it only reads files as media files. For example: I'm trying to install World of Warcraft and when the drive spins it up it doesn't auto play it. When I open the cd in windows explorer all that shows up is a 1Kb media file. I tried a few random generic cd drivers I found online but none seem to work. What should be done to fix this?
 
bad CD drive / disc. 😛

The reason is, once a media-insert event is signaled, the OS tries to access the table-of-contents of the drive, and if there are any identifiable data tracks, then it examines them to see if an known/supported CD filesystem is present (well, it checks sessions too, I guess), and if a filesystem is present, it mounts it. Otherwise, it simply exposes the tracks as "pointer" files, which can be used by the old media-player to play the analog CD audio tracks. So IOW, the drive isn't recognizing data CD properly, thus is likely simply defective.
 
Well that did it, I went and bought a new Lite On 52x drive and it works flawlessly. Its amazing the how much easier it is to get a pc working correctly when you have hardware that isn't broken.
 
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