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CD Drive Problem; Possibly Software Related

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Chris Woodward, 2008/12/28.

  1. 2008/12/28
    Chris Woodward

    Chris Woodward Inactive Thread Starter

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    I’m having a weird issue. My wife was uploading some songs from CDs we got so she could load them into her MP3 player. This went fine until she certain album. When I go to My Computer the drive now reads "DVD RW Drive (E: ) Audio CD" and "0 bytes free of 0 bytes." When I double click on the drive I get the following message, "E:\ Application not found.â€

    I can actually get the CD to play by right clicking, selecting Open AutoPlay, and choosing a player. It doesn’t remember this and I now have to go through this each time I want to play a CD now.

    Any thoughts on how to fix this? I've uninstalled the hardware and reinstalled it (using Device Manager) to no effect.

    Thanks,

    Chris
     
  2. 2008/12/29
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Try blowing the dust out of the drive with a compressed air can.
     

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    Arie

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    Looks more like a hardware problem instead. If you use another CD (or DVD), can you read that disk?
     
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    Chris Woodward

    Chris Woodward Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have not tried a DVD. I can tell you that other software works (a game). As to other CDs, none of the other CDs seem to be working as before.

    Just to ask, how could this be a hardware issue? The hardware works, it's just the interface to get it working that is messed up. If I right click, go to autoplay, then select play it'll work-- it just doesn't work when I double click it. I don't really know much about the issue, so it could well be hardware-- just the Q that makes me think it's software, esp since it worked before this.
     

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