Drive problems

So I have been having a problem lately. It seems pretty complicated to me, but maybe someone here can help. I have a CD-ROM and a VeloCD burner. Both have decided not to read CD's anymore, but my burner still writes. Also, I just noticed my floppy drive does not work either. All three drives tell me that the disk is not formatted, etc. The trick is that they all work in SAFE MODE just fine. I also have a similar problem with my defragmenter, in that it tells it cannot initialize, but works fine in safe mode.

I tried closing all non-essential processes in the task manager, but it won't let me close about 25 process. I get the feeling that one of them is causing my troubles, but since task manager won't let me close them, I can't tell. Does anybody have any ideas????

 

What OS?

Mike

 

OH My.

It is a little hard to help when we have no idea which of the 4-5 versions of Windows we have to deal with.

 

sorry, i am running windows 2k pro. anything else you need to know?

 

Hi BB

You can have it! Smile!

I am going to saw some logs ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz!

Good night

Mike

 

Hi Mike.

Sorry but I can't take it.

Me no nuttin from nohow about 2K.

Good night.

ZZZZZZZ !!

BB

 

OK Photodevil

You may have a disk problem so you need to do a scandisk!

But first you should cleanup!

Configure CleanMgr to max settings
Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sageset:1
The above need only be ran once (these settings will be remembered as the default until another sageset is ran).

It will present a menu select all except compress, then

Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sagerun:1
As long as /sageset above has been ran on this computer from now on the /sagerun is the only thing that needs to run.

Then

EasyClean1.7 <http://gswi.com/downloads.htm>

Run only unnecessary files and registry clean delete all it finds. If you have ME or XP in the "Unnessesary Files" type the word HELP in the skip box. Do not do Duplicate files!

Finally

<http://www.webattack.com/get/xpantispy.shtml>

Use it to turn off a lot of junk it has help. But specifically tell it to clear the pagefile on shutdown.

After the first reboot after you run XPAntiSpy go back to XpAntiSpy
and uncheck the clear Pagefile at shutdown, as we only want to clear it once.

When this is all done do this

Start-Run
type

chkdsk /r

It will tell you it need to reboot to do this so reboot.

Now if the problem is still there we have a clean slate and can delve deeper.

Mike