did replace it does the same with a known good working cd rom,plus a faster
cd rom,but keeps coming bake to m drive ??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Wright" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] haveing hp probs!!


> At 04:43 PM 3/14/2004, jerry crider wrote:
>
> >hi there lister, i have a friend that crashed her hard drive and
> >i was trying to put a new one in, but am haveing the  most probs i
> >have every had, i think it be couse its a hp i aint had a lot of
> >luck with them!! well i installed it and tryed running the
> >recovery disk but it formats and starts the install and then
> >calls for the secound disk about five mins,in to that disk it
> >stops and says , cdr101:not ready reading drive m abort retry
> >fail, i have removed the battery for 24 hours so it would reset
> >bios and i have fdisk,i even tryed installing just off my own
> >windows 98se disk and it gets to the first time it restarts and
> >then it says invaild medeia on drive m? for the live of me can
> >any one help ,it has a p3 1gig a bran new white label 20 gig hard
> >drive and 256 meg of ram,with a cdrw  from hp. please any help
> >would keep me from going bald from pulling my hair out!! and
> >again ty in advance jerry the fatboy crider,ps it a (hp pavilion
> >xt 953)
>
>
>  From what you have stated the CD Rom drive is the problem.
> It is either very dirty and needing a cleaning or the drive is failing.
> If the drive is dirty enough to generate that error, then you need
> to run a cleaning disc in it numerous times.  If you have access
> to an air-compressor, a good blast of air into the drive with the
> drive door open, is something I would do, (and do quite often
> when working on systems with older CDRW drives).
>
> Another point, the early CDRW drives did not take much in the
> way of usage before they failed.  I personally used up numerous
> CDRW drives until the last one I bought, a Teac SCSI drive.  This
> one has lasted for about two years now, but then again I use my
> DVD-RW and DVD+RW drives a great deal more than the CDRW
> drive.   But, back to your problem.  You probably should prepare
> to be replacing the drive.  One good thing is that these ATA/IDE
> drives are not very expensive these days.
>
>      Bob Wright
> The NoSpin Group, Inc.
> http://freepctech.com - http://nospin.com
>
>
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>
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