I think your CD-Rom drive has one foot in the grave.  You should consider
replacing it.  They are very inexpensive these days.  Basically, the
operating system thinks there's a cd in the drive for some reason, and it
chokes trying to read it.

Tony Mayer
Sysop
The Magic FunHouse BBS
http://bbs.magicom.net



>Hi,
>
>I've got a strange problem that I've never run into before.  My system is
>Pentium II, Win98, 384MB ram.  Over the past few months, I start to hear the
>"rattle" that indicates the CD drive is working (light on too) and then the
>hard drive light comes on and the cursor indicates it's busy, so no other
>program will work.  Originally this happened rarely, but now it's more usual
>than not.  When it happens is totally unpredictable as far as I can see.

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