Drives not reading cd's

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Hi all and hoping someone can help,
i've recently installed xp pro, but now find my cd's can not be read in cdrom or dvd rom. even though a disk is inserted, a prompt appears saying 'insert disk into drive'. i've checked thru properties and all seems ok. originally when xp was installed and i right clicked on a drive there was a sharing section, but now that is not shown. i have gone to window explorer and right click on drive hoping to find 'sharing' (as window help explains) but it is not there. i used to be able to see files listed on a cd but not now. weird to me but i ain't any geneous. any advised would be appreciated.thanks. geoff
 
geoff said:
thanks Thorsten for the help, but unfortunately none of the suggestions at the site were able to solve the problem.
the only one i couldn't do was the "test disc read with copy or xcopy". the suggested info to type at the command prompt did seem to want to work. i could have been typing it wrong with the <>:/ \V etc, who knows.
a thought however, do you think nortons 2002 could be causing the trouble?
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Probably. Deinstall the software to find it out.
 
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