Cd-rom doesn't work

vat2nike · #1 December 8th, 2005, 10:15 PM

Hey, my Cd-rom drive hasen't work for along time. When I open up my computer, there is no D:/ drive and when I put in a cd the light blinks but nothing seems to pop up on my desktop. I don't think it's a common problem that everyone has. I think I have to go to "add new hardware" but I don't know. I have a windows 95 pentium.

Idnew · #2 December 9th, 2005, 05:53 AM

Go into device manager(right click on my computor/properties/device manager)Click on the + next to your CD and get the name of it so you can get drivers for it if your win95 cd doesn't have them. Is there a ! by it?

Click on the CD in device manager and remove it and reboot. When it reboots it will probably say found new hardware. It might ask you for your win95 cd to get the drivers. You can also try re-installing Win95.

jdc2000 · #3 December 10th, 2005, 08:19 PM

It is also possible that the drive has died. You could try the drive in another PC to see if it will work there.

Brittany · #4 December 25th, 2005, 12:27 AM

HI iam having the same problem. But I did what you said and when it came time to click on the + next to CD ther was no CD there. I was installing a game and so i didnt have enough space and I just started deleting stuff and I think hta I deleted my D drive. I really need to get it back Please Help me some body ...Brittany

Brittany · #5 December 25th, 2005, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Brittany

HI iam having the same problem. But I did what you said and when it came time to click on the + next to CD ther was no CD there. I was installing a game and so i didnt have enough space and I just started deleting stuff and I think hta I deleted my D drive. I really need to get it back Please Help me some body ...Brittany

Idnew · #6 December 26th, 2005, 04:04 PM

Well you can't exactly delete it since it's normally your CDrom. Shut the pc complety off open your case, unplug the cd drive, (leave the case open for the time being)then reboot, then shut down again and go back and plug your cd back in then boot and see if it finds it.

vat2nike · #7 January 11th, 2006, 05:13 PM

can I re-install 95 with a boot disk (I think that's what there for)?

Idnew · #8 January 11th, 2006, 10:35 PM

Here is a Win95B boot disk image with a generic CD-ROM driver. This should provide real mode CD-ROM support for most IDE CD-ROMs.

This image can be used when formatting and re-installing Win95B and later (including WinME). Need more info about the different versions of Windows 95? Click here .

This image provides FAT32 support.

To use this image simply click here to download it, then just double-click it and follow the instructions. It will ask you to put a new floppy disk into your floppy drive, then it will format the disk, and copy the bootdisk image to it.

When done, I suggest that you immediately test your new bootdisk to make sure it works properly and can read a CD.

NOTE: If you have an anti-virus program running while you create your boot disk you *may* get a false alarm as the image recreates the master boot record (MBR) on the floppy disk. This is normal.

If your drive worked:

1.Exit all programs which are running.
2.Insert the Win95 CD (assuming your CD-drive is "D:").
3.Using Explorer double-click on Setup.exe, or
4.Select Run from the Menu and type or browse to: D:\Setup.exe Click OK.
5.Soon after starting, Setup will detect that Windows95 is already installed on the system, and display a box asking "Run Setup again?"
6.Choose the option to "Restore Windows files that are changed or corrupted" not "Copy all Windows files again"
7.Setup will check the Setuplog.txt file and replace missing or corrupted files from the CD.

Alternatively ...
1. As above, close all programs which are running.
2. Insert the Win95 CD (assuming your CD-drive is "D:").
3. Using Explorer go to the D:\Win95 folder on the CD and double-click on Setup.exe, or
4.Select Run from the Menu and type or browse to: D:\Win95\Setup.exe Click OK.
5. Soon after starting, Setup will detect that Windows95 is already installed on the system, and display a box asking "Run Setup again?"
6. Choose the option to "Restore Windows files that are changed or corrupted" not "Copy all Windows files again"
7. Setup will check the Setuplog.txt file and replace missing or corrupted files from the CD.

vat2nike · #9 January 12th, 2006, 03:31 PM

Okay I'll try.

Matui · #10 January 13th, 2006, 03:13 AM

I have a somewhat similar Problem. I was installing a game with 4 disc's and after the 1st one my drive would not recognize any of the others. It will play DVD's and some other CD's but mostly will try to run but when I go to MY Computer there is no recognition that anything is in the drive.

HBK1983 · #11 January 18th, 2006, 05:20 AM

Not to steal this topic or anything, but I have a somewhat similar problem as well:

I was fooling around with an older computer today and tried to copy a few files to a cd. It gave me an error message similar to "insert disk into drive d" when in fact there was a disk in there .

Anyways, I clicked on the properties of drive d and went through one of windows' great "wizards" to detect a different drive (thought that may be the problem). Big mistake! After doing all this, it asked me to restart, so I did. But this time, windows wouldn't even load. I kept getting error messages in dos saying "no valid cdrom device driver selected".

My question is: how do I detect and select the proper driver from dos?? Also, I do not have the Windows 95 cd, I hope this isn't a problem. If so, how could I obtain it? Is it still available from Microsoft? As far as I know, the cdrom always worked before, so I wouldn't think that it is fried or anything, but who knows. This particular pc hasn't been used in about 3 years. I've been researching on the net, but everything I find is from people reinstalling win95 or 98.

Any help anyone could provide is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Idnew · #12 January 19th, 2006, 02:24 AM

HBK

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I was fooling around with an older computer today and tried to copy a few files to a cd.

By copying did you mean you were burning them because you can't just copy files to a cd? Have you tried booting to safe mode? Tap on the F8 key while booting until you hear a beep and it should bring up a menu with options. Pick safe mode. If it will boot to safe mode then go into device manager and get the name of your cd drive.

Matui

Quote:

I have a somewhat similar Problem. I was installing a game with 4 disc's and after the 1st one my drive would not recognize any of the others. It will play DVD's and some other CD's but mostly will try to run but when I go to MY Computer there is no recognition that anything is in the drive

Try getting a CD cleaner(same kind you use in regular cd players and try cleaning it)

HBK1983 · #13 January 19th, 2006, 03:43 AM

Idnew,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I have tried booting in safe mode and every other option listed in dos; i.e. command prompt, safe mode, normal, etc. But Windows still won't load. It keeps telling me "no valid cdrom device drivers selected".

When I said that I was copying files, I meant that I was getting files off of the computer to transfer to a new one. I simply copied the documents in windows explorer and tried to paste them to the d drive with a cd installed, but I got the message to insert a disk into drive d or something similar. That's when I had the ingenious idea to try to select a different driver. When I did, it asked to restart, which I did. Hasn't loaded windows since.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Idnew · #14 January 20th, 2006, 12:30 AM

HBK if it was working ok before you tried to copy you might can restore yours. Boot to DOS and type scanreg/restore restore it to a date when it was working.

Whoa I just re-read your first post. Is this a Win95 os? If so then the restore won't work. If it is Win95 or Win98 then at the prompt type scanreg/fix

HBK1983 · #15 January 20th, 2006, 03:26 AM

OK, I must've really screwed something up here. Now the computer won't recognize the c directory. I had made a boot disk to install the drivers and left it in the a drive. When I turned on the computer, I had the a:\< at the command prompt. From reading past posts here, I typed "copy himem.sys c:\windows". I then tried to get windows to load but couldn't.

At the c prompt, I typed win and it didn't do anything (bad command or file name). I restarted the computer (simply turned off then back on) and now when I turn the computer on without the boot disk in I get a message along the lines of "invalid disk, insert disk and press any key" or something similar. So when I re-install the boot disk, it always goes to the a prompt now. When I type c:\> it tells me "invalid drive specification".

Have I screwed up bad? I had intended on getting some files off of this computer. I'm hoping I didn't somehow reformat the darn thing without knowing it. The only directories that the computer recognizes are a: and b:. That's why I'm thinking that somehow I may have formatted without knowing it. Plus, I don't have a win 95 disk to reinstall windows.

But, I just remembered seeing something like "Microsoft Windows Copyright 1985-1995" or something like that. Does that mean that windows is still on there somewhere?

I apologize for being so vague describing my problems. I don't have the computer right here in front of me (that old one, not this one, lol). I guess I should've never screwed with it in the first place. But on the bright side, I'm bound to learn more about computers from this experience.

As always, any help anyone can provide is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.