Help Please!!!!!!!!

apoc · #1 April 5th, 2005, 12:00 AM

Any help with my problem will be greatly apprecitated.

Ok, first of all i have Windows 98 SE. My problem is a not-responding CD-ROM drive. I insert a CD and i no longer hear the CD spinning inside the drive. When i try to make it run manually i get the message "D:/ is not accesible. The device is not ready." I have checked the device out in device manager and it shows no problems with the drive or with the hard disks. I had no problems before but now it just wont work anymore. I have also tried updating drivers and this had no effect.

I have found a website that is exactly about my problem, but i dont understand a word this guy is saying....he is way too technical and i just dont understand.
Here is the link http://www.spcug.org/reviews/bl0305.htm

And when i boot up my computer it recognizes my CD drive so theres no problem there. Can anyone help me????

Thanks is advance, bye.

Nick Grana · #2 April 5th, 2005, 02:51 AM

First of all, did this problem just start?
If yes, start/shutdown/restart in ms-dos
Then type c:\scanreg/restore
You will see today and the previous 4 days of bootups.
If your problem just started today, just choose todays date.
Answer yes of ok to Q's and then reboot.
Or choose one of the other dates if that's when it started.
Does that help?
Yes, good.

No, can you follow steps 1-6 in the link you supplied?
Also you might as well do a Start/find/files or folders and input those 2 files he referred to one at a time. (the 2 files, of which, he was missing one).
Are those 2 files there?

Get back after you try these steps.

Landon · #3 April 5th, 2005, 05:50 AM

Not hearing the CDROM drive spinning anymore is a HARDWARE problem not an OPERATING SYSTEM problem. Why the Device Manager can still see it is because the hard drive/cdrom drive controller and the circuit board inside the CDROM drive are still talking to each other but the motor that makes the CD spin has probably died. Even with nothing but the power cable attached to it it should still spin when you put a CD in.

Running System Restore will not cure this, try pulling the CDROM drive out and stick it in another computer, if it still acts the same way you have found the problem. I might as well tell you that CDROM drives die all the time, they are cheap to replace, computer stores have sales on them all the time.

Nick Grana · #4 April 5th, 2005, 11:20 PM

Easy now.
"I insert a CD and i no longer hear the CD spinning inside the drive."
Being on tech side a long time, this could mean either it spins and stops or it really did not spin at all. It just depends on how it's stated and what it really does sometimes (many, many times). Said and meant are not the same.
A reply from apoc may help.