rongee said:
I have a Sony cd/rw CRX220E1 drive that reads most disks but I cannot
get it to read Microsofts Flight sim FSX or Deep Silvers Tunguska
disks. The light on the drive flashes a few times but does no more.
Double clicking the drive letter in 'my computer' just opens an empty
window and checking the properties for it just shows a solid blue pie
chart circle and 0bytes used?
Other disks work just fine.
FSX used to worked fine and only seems to have gone wrong since I
installed Daemon tools lite. I uninstalled Daemon, re installed and
uninstalled it again but no change.
Any help please?
Cheers
Ron
There is a diagnostic approach here.
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/19217253.aspx
You're looking for a situation, where there is more than this listed.
Upper filters:
redbook
Controlling service:
cdrom
Lower filters:
imapi
On my computer, if I needed an alternate OS for disc testing,
I'd plug in a USB key with Linux on it, and boot the computer
with that. But that isn't necessarily the easiest thing to set up.
(And not all computers, boot from USB. I have several computers
here that don't boot from USB devices.)
Booting with a Linux CD would also work, and they have "TORAM=yes"
option. That loads the entire CD into RAM, so you can use the
optical drive for your testing, but that's a bit too geeky.
I run Linux LiveCDs all the time, in "TORAM" mode, so I won't
wear out the optical drive. The computer needs about 1.5GB of RAM,
to make that feasible and useful. (On my oldest computer, it has
too little RAM for that technique.) Using that option, allows the
LiveCD to be ejected, leaving Linux running from files stored in RAM.
And then you could plug in the "Microsoft Flight sim FSX"
disc and check it out.
Once Linux is running (a different OS, with different drivers
for the optical drive), then I'd check to see whether the discs
in question could be read or not. The disc should have a file
system on it, and visible files.
You could move the optical drive over to another computer and test it there.
The OS on that computer, could have a cleaner driver stack for the
optical drive, and then more discs could be read there. It's
easier to move SATA optical drives than IDE, because with IDE
(ribbon cable) you have to take some care with the jumper settings
(master/slave/cable_select).
If you can read the discs in question, under some other set of
test conditions, then you know the issue is with whatever your
current WinXP is doing.
There is the inevitable "Fixit" for CD/DVD drives, and this
fixes what the "devcon" recipe above is attempting to check.
So if you don't like the info in the link at the top of
this post, you can always run this instead. Maybe this
will fix, whatever daemon tools left behind.
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116
Paul
