CD Drive

[blarney8@.verizon.net]

I have a cd drive on my computer which is not being recognized by ME.
I put the ME disk in the cd drive but it doesn't open because the
drive is not listed.
How do I get ME to open the drive so that I can update drivers on the
computer?
Could I be able to put the XP disk in and install it from that drive
on that computer?
Thanks

 

[Mike M]

The first question is, does the drive actually work? Drives fail, grow
tired and die.

> How do I get ME to open the drive so that I can update drivers on the
> computer?

What drivers do you wish to update? I doubt you're going to find updated
CD drivers nor do I think that drivers are likely to be your problem.

> Could I be able to put the XP disk in and install it from that drive
> on that computer?

That rather depends on what you are wanting to do. Software rarely
repairs hardware faults.

Turning to your problem. I feel/suspect the problem is more one of a
dying optical drive than one of a problem with the operating system. You
might want to try the following.
a) Using A Win Me boot floppy, boot to DOS selecting option 2 - with CD
support (it might be 3, the important thing is to select the option WITH
CD support). This should then lead to your seeing an A:\> prompt.
b) Insert a CD containing data in your CD drive. A data CD is preferred
to an audio CD or a VCD/SVCD.
c) On the assumption that you have just the one hard drive partition (C:\)
enter the following at the A:\> prompt and then click Return
DIR E:\
d) This should now give you a listing of the contents of the data CD or
rather the top level files and folders. If not and you get an error
message then this would strongly suggest a defective optical drive.

If you don't have a Win Me boot floppy you can either create one for
yourself (Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Startup Disk) or download
the image of a Win Me startup disk from www.bootdisk.com that you can then
run which transfers a copy to a floppy. If when creating a startup disk
you get asked for a file see below for what to do.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com


blarney8@.verizon.net <blarney8@.verizon.net> wrote:

> I have a cd drive on my computer which is not being recognized by ME.
> I put the ME disk in the cd drive but it doesn't open because the
> drive is not listed.
> How do I get ME to open the drive so that I can update drivers on the
> computer?
> Could I be able to put the XP disk in and install it from that drive
> on that computer?
> Thanks