CD-RW problems under XP SP1

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Thomas Higgins

A PC at my workplace has a CD drive, that when a CD-
Rewritable CD is placed in the drive, the drive cannot be
reopened, unless the PC is rebooted, and I open the drive
within the boot time.

It only occurs with CD-Rewritables, all the ones I have
at work cause this problem, whether they are blank, or
have files on. Occasionally I will put one in and this
problem won't happen.... I do not know why though. The
CD is not being read at the time when I try to remove the
CD.

The employee that works on this PC is notorious for
having a lot of spyware on her machine, however i ran ad-
aware and removed all instances of everything (that ad-
aware picked up)... could a malicious program be causing
this?
 
Have you talked to the system administrator about something he may have done
to prevent burning cd's?
 
The system administrator has placed no restrictions on
the burning of CDs and as I said, this problem only
occurs with CD-REWRITABLES. The user can burn normal CDs
perfectly. This problem has only started to happen
recently on this computer, the user has always used her
CD-RWs to get info to and from the workplace.

I am tech support by the way, and have administrative
privileges.

I shall reiterate, this ONLY occurs for CD-RWs. When one
is placed in the drive, the drive will NOT open again...
even when you right click and choose "eject" from within
My Computer.
-----Original Message-----
Have you talked to the system administrator about something he may have done
to prevent burning cd's?

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
A PC at my workplace has a CD drive, that when a CD-
Rewritable CD is placed in the drive, the drive cannot be
reopened, unless the PC is rebooted, and I open the drive
within the boot time.

It only occurs with CD-Rewritables, all the ones I have
at work cause this problem, whether they are blank, or
have files on. Occasionally I will put one in and this
problem won't happen.... I do not know why though. The
CD is not being read at the time when I try to remove the
CD.

The employee that works on this PC is notorious for
having a lot of spyware on her machine, however i ran ad-
aware and removed all instances of everything (that ad-
aware picked up)... could a malicious program be causing
this?
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Hmm, then remove the drive from the Device Manager, and restart the PC; see
if that helps.

Thomas Higgins said:
The system administrator has placed no restrictions on
the burning of CDs and as I said, this problem only
occurs with CD-REWRITABLES. The user can burn normal CDs
perfectly. This problem has only started to happen
recently on this computer, the user has always used her
CD-RWs to get info to and from the workplace.

I am tech support by the way, and have administrative
privileges.

I shall reiterate, this ONLY occurs for CD-RWs. When one
is placed in the drive, the drive will NOT open again...
even when you right click and choose "eject" from within
My Computer.
-----Original Message-----
Have you talked to the system administrator about something he may have done
to prevent burning cd's?

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
A PC at my workplace has a CD drive, that when a CD-
Rewritable CD is placed in the drive, the drive cannot be
reopened, unless the PC is rebooted, and I open the drive
within the boot time.

It only occurs with CD-Rewritables, all the ones I have
at work cause this problem, whether they are blank, or
have files on. Occasionally I will put one in and this
problem won't happen.... I do not know why though. The
CD is not being read at the time when I try to remove the
CD.

The employee that works on this PC is notorious for
having a lot of spyware on her machine, however i ran ad-
aware and removed all instances of everything (that ad-
aware picked up)... could a malicious program be causing
this?
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Thomas Higgins said:
A PC at my workplace has a CD drive, that when a CD-
Rewritable CD is placed in the drive, the drive cannot be
reopened, unless the PC is rebooted, and I open the drive
within the boot time.

It only occurs with CD-Rewritables, all the ones I have
at work cause this problem, whether they are blank, or
have files on. Occasionally I will put one in and this
problem won't happen.... I do not know why though. The
CD is not being read at the time when I try to remove the
CD.

The employee that works on this PC is notorious for
having a lot of spyware on her machine, however i ran ad-
aware and removed all instances of everything (that ad-
aware picked up)... could a malicious program be causing
this?
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EZ CD Creator used to have a function that locked the drive to prevent
removing a disk in a state where it would be rendered unreadable. Seems to
me there was a setting somewhere that showed a pop-up when you tried to
eject the disk, otherwise you had to remember to unlock it.

I don't use that program any more, so I'm not sure what current versions do,
but there may be a similar function. Or some other CD writing program you
have might be doing something similar.

And it only acted that way with the RW disks, not the writeables.

It's not exactly an answer, but it may give you a place to start looking.
 
Are all the cdrw discs the same brand?

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
Thomas Higgins said:
The system administrator has placed no restrictions on
the burning of CDs and as I said, this problem only
occurs with CD-REWRITABLES. The user can burn normal CDs
perfectly. This problem has only started to happen
recently on this computer, the user has always used her
CD-RWs to get info to and from the workplace.

I am tech support by the way, and have administrative
privileges.

I shall reiterate, this ONLY occurs for CD-RWs. When one
is placed in the drive, the drive will NOT open again...
even when you right click and choose "eject" from within
My Computer.
-----Original Message-----
Have you talked to the system administrator about something he may have done
to prevent burning cd's?

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
A PC at my workplace has a CD drive, that when a CD-
Rewritable CD is placed in the drive, the drive cannot be
reopened, unless the PC is rebooted, and I open the drive
within the boot time.

It only occurs with CD-Rewritables, all the ones I have
at work cause this problem, whether they are blank, or
have files on. Occasionally I will put one in and this
problem won't happen.... I do not know why though. The
CD is not being read at the time when I try to remove the
CD.

The employee that works on this PC is notorious for
having a lot of spyware on her machine, however i ran ad-
aware and removed all instances of everything (that ad-
aware picked up)... could a malicious program be causing
this?
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