Pachicat
10-24-2004, 03:32 PM
I cannot figure this one out. I put my old cd burner, a yamaha 2200, into my husband's computer prior to upgrading him to windows xp from windows 98 se. It worked. I was able to use it to back up the critical data on his computer prior to the upgrade.
I did a clean install upgrade, repartitioning and reformatting his hard drive prior to the installation. Everything went perfectly. After the upgrade, I could not get his computer to recognize the cd burner, even though bios showed it to be there and the ide utilities showed it to be there. I posted an inquiry on sysopt (in tech support, I believe) and no one there was able to come up with a solution.
I did the windows update thing on his computer and lo and behold, the cd burner showed up. Windows XP finally recognized it! But I could not get windows to read any disk from the burner. Windows would show that there was a disk in the drive, but it would not read a directory or anything, much less run any program such as set up. I tried burning to it with no success (after installing the software which came with the burner). And any cd I put in that drive to read, after windows refused to read it, if I then put it in the cd-rom drive (drive d), I got an error message that windows could not read it. I would have to reboot to get windows to read the cd in the cd-rom drive.
Today, I put a brand new cd burner in his computer (a complete pain in the you-know-what due to the way his case is set up). Windows recognized the new burner right off the bat, but I had to configure the bios as a cd-rw before it would do anything with it. I am having the exact same problems with the new drive as I had with the old one.
It will recognize that a cd is in the drive, but will not read it. I burned some data files to the drive as a test, and it will not read those. But I can put the burned cd into my computer and read them. If I put a commercial cd into the drive, it will recognize that a cd is in the drive but not read a directory. And if I then put the cd into the other cd drive, it will tell me that it cannot read the cd and I have to reboot the computer to make it read the cd from that drive.
I have tried a new ide cable to no avial. The cd-burner is a hypermedia 48x24x48 and is configured as a master on the second ide. His computer is running windows xp pro sp 1 (and I've just downloaded and installed the available critical updates EXCEPT sp2). His motherboard is an ECS L7S7A2 1.0, his bios is AMI 07.00T. 04/02/01 (installed about three months ago), he has 256 mb ram and an AMD Athlon XP 2000. It's not important to this problem, but he has a 30 g hard drive installed.
I really need to get this cd burner working properly as the network does not work the same way it did under 98 and I am having problems backing up his data over the network.
Thanks for your assistance.
I did a clean install upgrade, repartitioning and reformatting his hard drive prior to the installation. Everything went perfectly. After the upgrade, I could not get his computer to recognize the cd burner, even though bios showed it to be there and the ide utilities showed it to be there. I posted an inquiry on sysopt (in tech support, I believe) and no one there was able to come up with a solution.
I did the windows update thing on his computer and lo and behold, the cd burner showed up. Windows XP finally recognized it! But I could not get windows to read any disk from the burner. Windows would show that there was a disk in the drive, but it would not read a directory or anything, much less run any program such as set up. I tried burning to it with no success (after installing the software which came with the burner). And any cd I put in that drive to read, after windows refused to read it, if I then put it in the cd-rom drive (drive d), I got an error message that windows could not read it. I would have to reboot to get windows to read the cd in the cd-rom drive.
Today, I put a brand new cd burner in his computer (a complete pain in the you-know-what due to the way his case is set up). Windows recognized the new burner right off the bat, but I had to configure the bios as a cd-rw before it would do anything with it. I am having the exact same problems with the new drive as I had with the old one.
It will recognize that a cd is in the drive, but will not read it. I burned some data files to the drive as a test, and it will not read those. But I can put the burned cd into my computer and read them. If I put a commercial cd into the drive, it will recognize that a cd is in the drive but not read a directory. And if I then put the cd into the other cd drive, it will tell me that it cannot read the cd and I have to reboot the computer to make it read the cd from that drive.
I have tried a new ide cable to no avial. The cd-burner is a hypermedia 48x24x48 and is configured as a master on the second ide. His computer is running windows xp pro sp 1 (and I've just downloaded and installed the available critical updates EXCEPT sp2). His motherboard is an ECS L7S7A2 1.0, his bios is AMI 07.00T. 04/02/01 (installed about three months ago), he has 256 mb ram and an AMD Athlon XP 2000. It's not important to this problem, but he has a 30 g hard drive installed.
I really need to get this cd burner working properly as the network does not work the same way it did under 98 and I am having problems backing up his data over the network.
Thanks for your assistance.