w2kp reinstall makes windows want to format my CDs

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After wiping my HD and partitioning it into two NTFS partitions I
reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and now every time I put a CD into the
drive I get a message saying that the disk in drive E: is not
formatted, then asking if I want to format it now. I suppose Windows is
failing to recognize the file system on the CD but this seems pretty
wierd. It recognized it just fine to do the install. Ideas? Diagnostics
I can do?

Dave
 
Check Event Viewer for errors. Check Device Manager for error codes and or
non-starting devices.

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| After wiping my HD and partitioning it into two NTFS partitions I
| reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and now every time I put a CD into the
| drive I get a message saying that the disk in drive E: is not
| formatted, then asking if I want to format it now. I suppose Windows is
| failing to recognize the file system on the CD but this seems pretty
| wierd. It recognized it just fine to do the install. Ideas? Diagnostics
| I can do?
|
| Dave
|
 
Thanks, Dave, that got me a bit more information. The device manager
shows no problems, the device status is showing ok. I reinstalled the
current driver after windows update showed no newer one, but to no
avail. The event viewer, however, was full of errors, all stemming from
references to the CD drive. Looking at properties for any of these
shows an error event ID of 7, with accompanying text "The device,
\CDRom0, has a bad block." Below is an edited hex dump of the offending
block - not very informative, to me at least.

I think this is unlikely to indicate a surface or format error,
especially on the manufacturer's disk I tested it with, but am back to
my suspicion that W2K just can't for some reason, read the CD's file
system. I tried logging in as administrator to see if that made any
difference, but no go. Ideas?


Dave
 
The drive might be failing. Does it happen with all media? Did you install
Daemon Tools?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks, Dave, that got me a bit more information. The device manager
| shows no problems, the device status is showing ok. I reinstalled the
| current driver after windows update showed no newer one, but to no
| avail. The event viewer, however, was full of errors, all stemming from
| references to the CD drive. Looking at properties for any of these
| shows an error event ID of 7, with accompanying text "The device,
| \CDRom0, has a bad block." Below is an edited hex dump of the offending
| block - not very informative, to me at least.
|
| I think this is unlikely to indicate a surface or format error,
| especially on the manufacturer's disk I tested it with, but am back to
| my suspicion that W2K just can't for some reason, read the CD's file
| system. I tried logging in as administrator to see if that made any
| difference, but no go. Ideas?
|
|
| Dave
|
 
Well thanks very much for that Dave. I thought I would test the drive
by rebooting with a copy of Knoppix in the drive, but in fact as soon
as I put the CD in I got a start screen from the autorun file on it. I
then replaced that disk with the one that I was originally using and it
worked too. So now I've been able to reinstall Office, my original
plan.

I didn't know about daemon tools and in googling for them found the cd
freaks site, which looks as if it will be a good resource.

So for now I'm inclined to think that you were right that the drive is
flakey. I don't need it now for a while and will look into a
replacement just in case. Many thanks,

Dave
 
You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Well thanks very much for that Dave. I thought I would test the drive
| by rebooting with a copy of Knoppix in the drive, but in fact as soon
| as I put the CD in I got a start screen from the autorun file on it. I
| then replaced that disk with the one that I was originally using and it
| worked too. So now I've been able to reinstall Office, my original
| plan.
|
| I didn't know about daemon tools and in googling for them found the cd
| freaks site, which looks as if it will be a good resource.
|
| So for now I'm inclined to think that you were right that the drive is
| flakey. I don't need it now for a while and will look into a
| replacement just in case. Many thanks,
|
| Dave
|
 
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