From: William Wilson : Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Is My CD-Rom Kaput?


> As a follow up to my question, I have tried several different CD's in the
> drive including the original Windows 98 CD.  I thought I had read it was
> bad to use cleaning kits on CD-Rom drives.  Is this worth a try?
>
> Marilyn
>
> >My CD-Rom is my D: drive.  I'm running Windows 98 and Windows Explorer
> >shows a D: drive.  However when I click on it, a message comes up saying
> >"D: is not accessible.  This device is not ready."  Under CD-Rom in
device
> >manager, there is no yellow exclamation mark, it says 32x Max Atapi
CD-Rom.
> > It also says "This device is working properly." and "No driver files
> >required."  Is there anything else I can check or is my CD-Rom broken?
>

Marilyn,

I have used a cd cleaning kit on a cd and had good results.  The cd drive
would not read any cd's including silver cd's.  It read all data cd's as
audio cd's or the drive would just spin and finally lock the machine up.
After cleaning the cd rom  with an Alsop cleaning cd it now reads all cd's
again.

Mary Wolden

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