How Do I Fix This Problem?

[Chuck]

I have two CD drives, D and F. D is a burner.

When I try to install a CD from drive F, I get a system error that says windows cannot read from drive D. When I try to install from dive D, I get a message that windows cannot read from drive F.

I'm wondering if I didn't close out of a CD recording session properly.

How do I fix this?

I've tried removing both CD drives and rebooting, but that didn't help.

[Chainsaw]

First thing I'd do, assuming that you are using Windows 98 is go to the Device Manager (right click on My Computer/left click on Properties then Device Manager), Go to each of the CDROMs, click the plus sign to see if there are any yellow question marks showing there. If there are, hi-light it and go below to Remove it. If no '?' then right click to check Properties and see if the device is working properly or has an error message. If it indicates an error, remove it(or follow instructions given). If you removed either/both of the CDROMs then go to Control Panel/Add New Hardware and let Windows search for the two. If Windows doesn't find them, then pick the box that lets you specify the hardware and select your CDROM from the list. (You may need to pick have disk and point Windows to the software that was provided with the CDROMs).
I sure hope this helps!
Good luck,
chainsaw

[This message has been edited by Chainsaw (edited 11-14-1999).]

[Butchk]

Chainsaw has a good idea while you look give us a little more info on your system. Like what type of mother board and how do you have the two cd drives hooked up? Also what verison of windows are you running. Maybe we can get a better idea. /forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by Butchk (edited 11-15-1999).]

[Chainsaw]

We'll certainly give it a try!
Any history of these CDs would help too, have you had both working together before? Any other changes to system since they were working? Most of all, need the OS.
chainsaw

[Roraycr]

My burner is a Ricoh drive and the set up states that it must be the last drive on the cable whether or not it is master or slave. Hope this helps

[Petros]

This may be a silly thing to check, but assuming that you have both cd drives on the same ide channel, are you sure that you have one drive set to master and the other to slave?

[Axel]

Chainsaw has a good plan, except I'd do it in safe mode in win 9X so you can see any other drivers or previous installs and remove them at the same time, then restart with driver disks in hand and install them manually from 'have disk' after the system has auto-detected both drives. I'd surf the web before starting this and get the latest drivers off the manu. web sites for both drives.

You might also replace the IDE cable you have those drives on. There is a small chance a bad IDE cable might be doing this to you, but it's probably either the drivers for one or both drives, or a resource conflict that should resolve itself after a clean uninstall and auto-detect.

[Russianguy]

First chek jumper settings on both CDROM drivers it's better to have them on the same IDE. If so one CDROM must be master another slave try that CDROM master CDROM-R slave and CDROM is drive "D" CDROM-R drive "F".
Hope it will help you.

[Butchk]

Do you have anything slaved off your hard drive? I set a computer up with both drives the cd reader I slaved off the hard drive. The writer I set up on it's own on the secondary ide port. I'm not saying this will solve your troubles but it might /forum/smile.gif