Cannot access Cd ROMs

[MoreIBNR]

Im am running Windows 98 dual booting with Windows 2000. I have an ABIT bp6 with celeron 366's overclocked to 550. I have a Sound blaster Live! Value card, a Rage Fury 32MB video card, a Pioneer DVD, 2 Maxtor 20 GB hard drives.

Everything ran great for over a year until I installed a TEAC CD-RW along with the Adaptec software. Then my system started freezing up at generally unpredictable times - while booting up, while in AOL, in Word... It ALWAYS froze when I tried to defrag or do a complete virus scan (Norton).

I started to disable stuff in Device Manager to try to find the problem. When I disabled the Creative Labs Stuff, I found the system more stable - I could get through a complete defrag and virus scan.

I uninstalled the Creative Lab software and drivers (Liveware) and reinstalled. Installed the Liveware 3 upgrade.

Now I can't find my CD ROMS. They show up in Device Manager, but not in Windows Explorer.

They are there if I boot to a floppy ot to Windows 2000

I tried reinstalling Windows 98 - didn't help.

Can any of you help? Thanks.

[Roy]

Welcome to SysOpt! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Somewhere along the path I had some kind of problem that comes to mind upon hearing your lament.

Someone sent me to Device Manager in SAFE MODE where I found that what I had removed in NORMAL MODE still was there!

It's worth a try for you and if it doesn't help, bump your thread upwards in a few days to keep it active.

[Ed_S]

I'm also having a TON of probs relating to the installation of a new Teac CDRW, which replaced a working 2X Sony CDR.
About half of them are in this topic, (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/013836.html) and the rest are software related.

I am also having lockup probs whenever I attempt any kind of burn. And device mangler issues galore, as outlined in my topic.

Anyway, is yours the Teac CD-W516E which was on sale at CompUSA last weekend??

Maybe a bad run of drives???

[Frenzy]

I had this problem when I installed internet connection sharing...my cd roms disappeared from explorer. Here is what I did:

Open the Registry Editor.
START > RUN > Type > Regedit > Click OK).
Once the Registry Editor is displayed navigate to the following Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ Currentcontrolset \ Services \ VXD \ IOS

Highlight the IOS KEY and look in the right pane for a NOIDE entry. If found, highlight the NOIDE entry and go to EDIT, select DELETE. Close the Registry Editor and RESTART the computer. Provided no hardware conflicts still exist to cause another NOIDE to be placed back in the Registry, the CD-ROM should reappear and the Yellow exclamation marks should disappear.

hope this helps.

[MoreIBNR]

Ed S. - Yes, I believe I have the same burner - 12/8/4 if I remember correctly. I got it a few months ago and have burned a few CDs with it without problems. But I do have the freeze up problems. I will read the other topic. Thanks fro the direction.

Also, thanks to Frenzy. I will try your fix this evening.

[NDC]

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[socalgal]

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