CD RW present but will not read discs

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Lorne

Greetings all,
a puzzling issue here.....
my cd rw shows up in My Computer and the device manager and in the BIOS but
it will not read any discs!! i've tried replacing the cd rw with an
identical drive as well as a DVD RW with the same results.
i have checked settings everywhere and all seems correct.
I did have an issue with the front mounted usb ports not recognizing a San
Disk flash drive and resolved that issue by changing the drive letter (there
were mapped drives using the E,F, and G drive letters. I renamed those
drives with X,Y and Z and renamed the flash drive letter to L..... now the
USB recognizes everything plugged into it....
could this be somewhat related to the DVD RW (drive letter D)? or is this
something with windows?

any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much
 
Open device mgr,expand the tree to the cdrw,R.click,select uninstall,dont
restart computer,close out device mgr,power off computer.Move the cdrw
to a diffrent IDE connection,chk jumper pins on all units connected,power
up computer.XP will reinstall device.
 
thanks andrew,
i will try that on the weekend..... one thing... when you say "move the cdrw
to a different ide connection....", should i add it to the hard drvie's ide
and make the cdrw a slave or cable select?
 
I had the same sort of problem.
Turned out to be Trend Micro, pc Cillan was causing some sort of conflict,
don't know how, once I uninstalled it......it fixed itself.
Now gone to a different anti virus.

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i am using avg free version...... but i dont think that is the issue....
tomorrow i will try to set the cdrw as a slave (can i say that?? ) ok i will
say it as .... a secondary to the primary hard drive!
 
sorry for taking so much time to respond here......
i tried changing the IDE and making the cd rom a slave but that didnt work
either.
i checked the registry for filters and that is OK (no filters high or
lower).

any other suggestions?
 
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