CD drive wont read discs

Posted: 01-11-2004, 11:46 AM

Grant Sutherland

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Hi

Whenever I try to play a cd on my PC it doesn't work. It used to work fine, but now cannot read the disc. The D: drive shows up as empty, and therefore Media Player and Real One cannot see any information to play. Any ideas
My machine is XP

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plectrum

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Re: CD drive wont read discs

Posted: 01-11-2004, 03:59 PM

"Grant Sutherland" <grantjsutherland@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:9DA04DBE-44B3-4867-9798-4B2D234E83AD@microsoft.com...

> Hi,
>
> Whenever I try to play a cd on my PC it doesn't work. It used to work

fine, but now cannot read the disc. The D: drive shows up as empty, and
therefore Media Player and Real One cannot see any information to play. Any
ideas?

> My machine is XP

Do they work on a friend's PC ? If so it could be that your drive is
knackered. Replace it.

Cheers,
jerry

Byte

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RE: CD drive wont read discs

Posted: 01-11-2004, 04:26 PM

Try rebooting your PC before inserting a new disk or another disk. See if it reads then. If not, you may need another CD-Rom drive.

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RE: CD drive wont read discs

Posted: 01-11-2004, 06:46 PM

mine is the same way. when i open the roxio cd creater it says "pleasei nsert a blank disc", even when i have one in there. and i go to drivers and it says both my cd drives (burner and DVD) are in use by "null". anyone know what null is?

Galley

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Re: CD drive wont read discs

Posted: 01-12-2004, 04:08 AM

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:46:08 -0800, "runaway_gem"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> spewed forth these words of wisdom:

>mine is the same way. when i open the roxio cd creater it says "pleasei nsert a blank disc", even when i have one in there. and i go to drivers and it says both my cd drives (burner and DVD) are in use by "null". anyone know what null is?

Null is computer-speak for "nothing".

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