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Jeanne
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
Windows can't see CD Drive |
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My CD burner had been great for two years. Then it began to fail
before a CD was completely burned and would not pop out the CD.
After much frustration, I called in a tech and he cleaned out a bunch
of temp files and things I didn't need and told me to get some more
memory. He said Windows certainly didn't seem to be seeing the drive,
so to install a new one.
I DID install the new drive and when my FamilyTreeMaker format was not
recognized, the CD software told me to upgrade (Nero 7), so I did.
I just tried to burn a new CD and it started right up and ran to 97%
and stopped. Then it froze up my whole computer just like every other
time before I called the tech.
When I checked TaskMaster, I got the same error message that Desktop
and PictureSlideShow were not running.
I was, as usual, unable to send the error message to Microsoft because
as soon as it came up, it froze, too.
Any ideas besides call the tech back out? |
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Yves Alarie
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
Re: Windows can't see CD Drive |
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Try to defragment your drive first, if you have never done this on your PC.
You need about 1 GB of free and continuous memory space on your hard drive
when you copy to a CD and while you may have more than this amount of free
space it may fragmented.
"Jeanne" <jeancreswick@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | My CD burner had been great for two years. Then it began to fail
before a CD was completely burned and would not pop out the CD.
After much frustration, I called in a tech and he cleaned out a bunch
of temp files and things I didn't need and told me to get some more
memory. He said Windows certainly didn't seem to be seeing the drive,
so to install a new one.
I DID install the new drive and when my FamilyTreeMaker format was not
recognized, the CD software told me to upgrade (Nero 7), so I did.
I just tried to burn a new CD and it started right up and ran to 97%
and stopped. Then it froze up my whole computer just like every other
time before I called the tech.
When I checked TaskMaster, I got the same error message that Desktop
and PictureSlideShow were not running.
I was, as usual, unable to send the error message to Microsoft because
as soon as it came up, it froze, too.
Any ideas besides call the tech back out?
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Jeanne
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
Re: Windows can't see CD Drive |
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Oh, no. Defragging is not a problem. I do it weekly and the tech did
it and I've done it several times since he left. Thanks for the input,
though. |
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Burgy
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:56 am Post subject:
Re: Windows can't see CD Drive |
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Try shutting down all other running applications, like anti-virus,
firewalls, screen savers etc, When you do a burn.
"Jeanne" <jeancreswick@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Oh, no. Defragging is not a problem. I do it weekly and the tech did
it and I've done it several times since he left. Thanks for the input,
though.
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Yves
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Re: Windows can't see CD Drive |
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How are you trying to burn?
With XP or with Nero?
"Jeanne" <jeancreswick@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Oh, no. Defragging is not a problem. I do it weekly and the tech did
it and I've done it several times since he left. Thanks for the input,
though.
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