Cd Rom Drives

[actual1]

I have 2 cd rom drives neither of which is recognizing that a cd is in them. When I go to drag a file Explorer to place it on a CD an error message says "The drive is not ready, etc." They both used to work just fine -- now they don't.

Have tried the "Fix and Repair" thing, I know the cd's I'm putting in are blank. Any suggestions????

[RJ]

Hello and welcome to the PC Mech forums.

Do you have a Mount Rainier capable cd burner and Mt. Rainier capable application ?

If not, then you need to format the media before you can copy something to it via explorer. That's called packet writing. Just use DirectCD or InCD or DLA or B's clip or whatever packet writing application you have.

Another possibility would be to use a normal burning application, but then you can't use drag&drop on that cd.

RJ

[Charger]

Right click My Computer

Click Device Manager Tab

Click CD Rom

Double click the CD Rom in question

Click on Settings Tab and Check Auto-Insert Notification

Also click Drivers tab and make sure your drivers are still there.

[actual1]

Thank you RJ and O Beachian. I'll try these things and see what happens!

[RJ]

Another thing that came in my mind: What CDs are you using ? CD-R or CD-RW ? There are 2 types of CD-RW. The normal CD-RW that can be rewritten with 2x and 4x speed, and the highspeed CD-RWs that can be rewritten with 10x and 12x speed, but need a highspeed cd-rw burner for this.

If you have an older cd burner then you can't burn highspeed cd-rws. And it can also be possible that your burner is defective.
You said that you have 2 drives. I don't think that you have 2 burners or 2 cd rom (reading devices). I think one of them is a plain cd-rom drive (can only read, not write) and the other be the burner.

Make sure that you put the blank CD in the burner, not in the cd drive that can only read.

RJ

[actual1]

You're right. One is a burner, the other is a read only. I am not attempting to do a high speed copy. It still isn't recognizing either drive. I'm beginning to think that they're both defective. Pretty coincidental though.

I sure appreciate the help.

[RJ]

Well, you said that you used a blank media. Only the CD burner can recognize it when empty. The CDROM drive won't.

Insert a cd with data on it into both drives to test if they still work.

What happens if you use a burning program (such as WinOnCD or Nero or EZ CD Creator) ? Does it work then ?

RJ

[actual1]

We have EZ CD Creator. It didn't work for that program either. I'm probably not going to get back to this challenge until Friday morning. I'll try all of your suggestions and let you know what's happened.

Thanks for sticking with this, RJ!