My friend has a Dell pentium pc, 1.9 gig, 512K ram, WinXP, 80 gig 
hard drive with lots of empty space. It also has two CD/DVD drives 
labeled Drive D and Drive E.  One drive, Drive D works fine; the 
other, Drive E, does not. Drive E will only read one CD. If you put 
any other CD in the drive, it will not recognize the CD. If you 
select the drive, Windows will ask you to put in a CD even if there 
is one already in the Drive unless the one particular CD is in the 
drive and then it goes right on as a normal CD drive would.

BTW, the only CD that works in Drive E also works just fine in Drive D.

I looked in Device Manager and everything appears to be OK there. It
says with Drive E as it does with Drive D that "this device is 
working properly."

I'm not stating this problem very well but it is very confusing. I 
guess what I'm asking is if anyone has any idea what could be 
causing Drive E to read only one single CD and not others? How can I 
get it to work properly.

Thanks for any help...

Loy

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