- 15 Mar 2003
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Well, after almost two years of trouble-free computing, the CD-ROM drive on my laptop is acting up. I would love any advice you could give to fix this problem. Here is the skinny -
I bought a Hitachi DVD Camcorder and installed the software that comes with it - a USB dirver, something else that starts with a U and also is related to connecting the camera to the computer, and two DVD edit/making programs.
Somewhere along the line, my CD-ROM drive developed an attitude.
Now, if I put any blank media CD-ROM disk into the drive, the computer refuses to open the F: drive by either a double click on the icon, a right click open command, or by accessing it through other windows. I did not have this problem before the Hitachi Incident. I get either one of two error messages 1) "Cannot access F: drive, Incorrect function" or 2) "No disk in drive, please insert a disk."
This is inspite of the fact that the F: drive icon changes to show a disk is in the drive - it even tells me what type it is...
I have run every troubleshooting guide Windows XP has and nothing seems to work. All my drivers are kosher and running fine. I don't have this problem with disks that already have something written on them, and I can write to the F: drive by the send command when you right click on a file, so all hope is not lost.
This is more of a pain in the rear than a crippling problem. It is just that I play with a lot of media files in the course of a day and not being able to quickly access my CD-ROM drive is a bother. I have contacted Hitachi and am waiting to hear what wonderful sollution they are going to offer. In the meantime, I thought I would let our wonderful JREF tech community take a crack at it.
(I'm running a Japanese Windows XP home edition on a Japanese computer with a Japanese Hitachi software (by the way, everything on the Japanese version of XP is in the exact same place, so don't let that stop you))
I bought a Hitachi DVD Camcorder and installed the software that comes with it - a USB dirver, something else that starts with a U and also is related to connecting the camera to the computer, and two DVD edit/making programs.
Somewhere along the line, my CD-ROM drive developed an attitude.
Now, if I put any blank media CD-ROM disk into the drive, the computer refuses to open the F: drive by either a double click on the icon, a right click open command, or by accessing it through other windows. I did not have this problem before the Hitachi Incident. I get either one of two error messages 1) "Cannot access F: drive, Incorrect function" or 2) "No disk in drive, please insert a disk."
This is inspite of the fact that the F: drive icon changes to show a disk is in the drive - it even tells me what type it is...
I have run every troubleshooting guide Windows XP has and nothing seems to work. All my drivers are kosher and running fine. I don't have this problem with disks that already have something written on them, and I can write to the F: drive by the send command when you right click on a file, so all hope is not lost.
This is more of a pain in the rear than a crippling problem. It is just that I play with a lot of media files in the course of a day and not being able to quickly access my CD-ROM drive is a bother. I have contacted Hitachi and am waiting to hear what wonderful sollution they are going to offer. In the meantime, I thought I would let our wonderful JREF tech community take a crack at it.
(I'm running a Japanese Windows XP home edition on a Japanese computer with a Japanese Hitachi software (by the way, everything on the Japanese version of XP is in the exact same place, so don't let that stop you))