Techie Help request

[Juspar Emvan]

I've lost my CD drive, I'm not sure where it went, but apparently it's not here. I mean, I can see it, I just can't read from it. Physically all is good. I've removed the hardware through widows, and reinstalled it. The tray ejects and closes, and I can hear the motor wind up when it closes. But I keep getting "D:/ is not accessible The device is not ready"

Damn it

 

[Tyrael]

Mebbe the thing died?

How old is the drive?

I had one for a while and then it started eating cds. the D: would disappear altogether from the Explorer menu at times. I replaced it when it started tearing up my porn cds.

 

[Juspar Emvan]

It's only a few months old - whole new rig. Explorer can still 'see' it, just not read it.

 

[lobito]

Hey J, do you have a disket with the file MSCDEX.EXE on it? That's teh file but Windows should recognize the cd drive anyway with a reboot.

Lo

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Got it, done it. Recognising the drive doesn't appear to be the issue. Reading the disc in the drive is.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

go to the device manager (right click on my computer, and go down to properties) and open up the cd-rom thing.. check it out there and you can do some trouble shooting to try and fix it

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Apparently nothing will fix it.

Drivers all re-installed. No device errors or driver conflicts. And yet - Device not Ready!

Grrr

 

[Willing and Unsure]

did you try a different kind of cd (audio instead of data, or vice versa)?

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Yup. The only CD I haven't tried is the head cleaner. And I'll try that tomorrow when I get home from work. Thanks all, I think that's the last hope for this drive.

 

[Weird Harold]

Yup. The only CD I haven't tried is the head cleaner. And I'll try that tomorrow when I get home from work. Thanks all, I think that's the last hope for this drive.

Speaking of old threads...

Just last week or so, someone had similar symptoms from a virus -- have you done a virus scan?

 

[kiwiwolf]

You need a bigger hammer Juspar... anything can be fixed with the right sized hammer... How's Canada buddy?

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Speaking of old threads...

Just last week or so, someone had similar symptoms from a virus -- have you done a virus scan?

Yes, but I don't trust my software. So that is the last ditch effort. Tried to do a head clean - still no luck. Can anyone point me to a good site? I know there is one I used to use, but don't have my 'favourites' anymore.