Hi all,

I have a MMX 233 machine running win 95 with a 24x CD-ROM drive (drive name
24X MAX).

Audio CD's can be played from the CD drive without any problem.
I can see a directory listing and the files in the directory from My
Computer or Explorer.

The problem is that I cannot copy any file from the CD-ROM to the hard disk
as the message 'invalid file handle' appears.

The driver is loading correctly into the OS. Appropriate lines are in the
config.sys and autoexec.bat and it detects the drive at startup and the
message that a CD-ROM device was found also appears. But the Device Manager
does not show the CD-ROM drive. I have tried to Add New Hardware but it
does not detect the CD-ROM. Even booting from a startup disk will not let
me copy files from the CD-ROM to the HD even though I can access the
directories and files.

Have tried using CD Analyzer for win 95 and after some time it analyzers
the drive (it checks and gives the speed of 8X).

I have tried using a universal CD driver to no avail.

Is my CD-ROM bad? It there anything I can do to rectify this problem. Are
there are CD-ROM testing utilities that I can download from the Internet?

Thanks for your time.

Regards,

Altaf


Altaf Hussein

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Colombo
Sri Lanka

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