> ok let me be more specific. i shoulda been earlier. What i mean by "won't
> read" is exactly that. I stick a store bought audio cd into either of my
> cd-rom drives and it doesnt read it. It's as if the cd isnt in
> there. i look
> in "my computer", double click the drive letter, and it appears blank.
> nothing shows up, and it says theres 0 megs on the cd.
>
> When i use any other type of cd (burned audio cd's, games, etc)
> it works fine.
>
> What could be cauing this?

     That could be normal, Audio CDs can't be "read" like that, have you
tried opening CDPlayer and seeing if it plays the disk? It depends on the
CDROM itself, I have some that do that while others show *.cda files. TTYL

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