CD and DVD issues

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XP Home, used HP Pavilion 521n computer

I'm not an expert, have searched and see a number of posts that the Samsung
DVD/CD SD 616 is not a winner, I am seeing that it does not recognize a CD,
when it should. Properties, Device Manager, everything seems normal.

Advice on this?

I also hope to salvage the CD drive, a Sony CDU7GE. In this HP machine, a
top cover opens and the CD is inserted. The drive light does not come on.
But the CPU activity light flickers as if it is reading the CD. But nothing
happens. In Explorer, I open the CD drive, and a audio screen opens. I
notice on bootup, the CD drive light flickers, so the drive is not dead.

So the CD drive only recognizes a audio cd, not a data cd. This must be an
XP setting.

How to change the CD drive setting to recognize anything, audio or data cd?

ms
 
ms said:
I also hope to salvage the CD drive, a Sony CDU7GE. In this HP
machine, a top cover opens and the CD is inserted. The drive light
does not come on. But the CPU activity light flickers as if it is
reading the CD. But nothing happens. In Explorer, I open the CD
drive, and a audio screen opens. I notice on bootup, the CD drive
light flickers, so the drive is not dead.

So the CD drive only recognizes a audio cd, not a data cd. This must
be an XP setting.

How to change the CD drive setting to recognize anything, audio or
data cd?
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There is no setting for that. You can get at the *autoplay* settings via
Explorer, right click on drive, select properties.

Have you tried to read a data CD? Play an audio CD?



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There is no setting for that. You can get at the *autoplay* settings
via Explorer, right click on drive, select properties.

Have you tried to read a data CD? Play an audio CD?
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Referring to the Sony CD drive, as I said in my OP, it would not recognize
a data disk. The disk I tried was a disk that included data files and
executable files. I don't have a audio CD handy right now, but my interest
is in the drive for data files.

I opened autoplay settings, have a choice of audio files, video files, etc,
only one possibility is "mixed content files". I selected it, open
folders, Apply, closed the screen. Then opened properties again, the change
did not happen, it still reads music files. In Explorer, I selected the cd
drive, with a data cd I get a listing of (IIRC) *.tca- a music extension.

The info I can find on this Sony drive does not say audio only. I have
another XP computer, the CD drive handles files just like any other machine
I've seen. This is the only machine that sees everything as an audio file.

ms
 
ms said:
Referring to the Sony CD drive, as I said in my OP, it would not
recognize a data disk. The disk I tried was a disk that included data
files and executable files. I don't have a audio CD handy right now,
but my interest is in the drive for data files.

I opened autoplay settings, have a choice of audio files, video
files, etc, only one possibility is "mixed content files". I selected
it, open folders, Apply, closed the screen. Then opened properties
again, the change did not happen, it still reads music files. In
Explorer, I selected the cd drive, with a data cd I get a listing of
(IIRC) *.tca- a music extension.
Click to expand...

The autoplay doesn't affect the ability of the OS to read a disc, only what
program the OS will open or what it will do when a disc with files of a
particular type is inserted.
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The info I can find on this Sony drive does not say audio only. I have
another XP computer, the CD drive handles files just like any other
machine I've seen. This is the only machine that sees everything as
an audio file.
Click to expand...

Audio is data too, no such thing as an audio only drive

There is a problem with either the disc or the OS. Why don't you use the
problem machine to burn some files to a blank CD and see what happens.


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Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
dadiOH said:
The autoplay doesn't affect the ability of the OS to read a disc, only
what program the OS will open or what it will do when a disc with
files of a particular type is inserted.
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Audio is data too, no such thing as an audio only drive

There is a problem with either the disc or the OS. Why don't you use
the problem machine to burn some files to a blank CD and see what
happens.
Click to expand...
I have yet to load my utilities on this machine, convert it to my own
familiar settings, etc. so it would be a little while to use my normal burn
utility.

But this may be an answer for the issues I'm seeing-
Both the Sony CD drive and the Samsung DVD drive use XP default drivers,
not the manf. drivers. Does this account for the CD drive preference for
audio files?

ms
 
ms said:
I have yet to load my utilities on this machine, convert it to my own
familiar settings, etc. so it would be a little while to use my
normal burn utility.

But this may be an answer for the issues I'm seeing-
Both the Sony CD drive and the Samsung DVD drive use XP default
drivers, not the manf. drivers. Does this account for the CD drive
preference for audio files?
Click to expand...

No.


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....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
ms said:
I have yet to load my utilities on this machine, convert it to my own
familiar settings, etc. so it would be a little while to use my
normal burn utility.
Click to expand...

You don't need a burning program, XP will do it all by its (not so) little
self.

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LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
I posted the fix. But it is up to you if you want to do it or not
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Thanks, but I looked at that site, did not see anything that helped in this
issue. I separately searched, found others have had this problem, one said
caused by Media Player running in the background, I disabled that but no
luck. So I'm still working on that issue.

Both drives use XP default drivers. The CD drive only recognizes an audio
disk, and the CD/DVD drive does not recognize a cd disk. Whether it works
with a DVD does not matter for my use. I will look for manf. drivers as a
next step.

ms
 
Please note Peter Foldes is a convicted paedo and so his advise is not
something a rationale person would follow.

Your problem has been going on since 17th April 2010 and so my advice to
you is to reformat your Hd, and start all over again. Before
reformatting your HD, the usual backups should be taken as the entire HD
will be wiped clean including any viruses and trojans hiding in your
system waiting to attack when the time is right!

hth


Thanks, but I looked at that site, did not see anything that helped in this
issue. I separately searched, found others have had this problem, one said
caused by Media Player running in the background, I disabled that but no
luck. So I'm still working on that issue.

Both drives use XP default drivers. The CD drive only recognizes an audio
disk, and the CD/DVD drive does not recognize a cd disk. Whether it works
with a DVD does not matter for my use. I will look for manf. drivers as a
next step.

ms
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ps1: Peter Foldes <[email protected]> is a convicted paedo using
his 12 year old sister to work for him as prostitute.

ps2: Jeff Strickland <[email protected]> has forced his mum to
prostitute herself by working for Peter Foldes so that he (Jeff)
can finance his drug habits!

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ms said:
Thanks, but I looked at that site, did not see anything that helped
in this issue.
Click to expand...

You didn't see the line that says "The media in your CD or DVD drive cannot
be read" under "What it fixes"?

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
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LD55ZRA said:
Please note Peter Foldes is a convicted paedo and so his
advise is not something a rationale person would follow.
Click to expand...

And which conviction/s was it that makes YOU post so much useless garbage?
Yes, I said useless. Reformatting a hard drive may or may not get rid of all
viruses. Only a delete/recreate of the partition/s can be certain the drive
has completely been "wiped" clean. I'll leave it to you to research the
"why" of that.

I didn't know being a "paedo" as you mis-spell it, had any bearing on a
person's ability to learn things. Are you seeing similarities to yourself
that make you nervous? What?
Neither did I know people had something called a "rationale". Jeez,
you're supposed to be intelligent?
You're a real wart on the ass of progress.
Your problem has been going on since 17th April 2010 and so
my advice to you is to reformat your Hd, and start all over
again. Before reformatting your HD, the usual backups
should be taken as the entire HD will be wiped clean
including any viruses and trojans hiding in your system
waiting to attack when the time is right!
Click to expand...

And they're also prone to being backed up if their locations aren't known.
I'd hope there was already a backup to restore from. If not, manual rebuild
time has arrived in such a case as you present.
hth
Click to expand...

No, you do not.
 
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