Not recognising CD & Errors on chkdsk

Hi there,
I am relatively new to this although studied a number of years ago so VERY hazy memories of DOS etc....However, I have encountered what appears to be a major problem, it is:

Suddenly my machine will not read from the CD although will play audio in Windows Media player. The messages received are: "Would you like to format it now?" In graphics mode it reads: "There is an error in the folder" A chkdsk was performed by a friend and the reading is as follows: they are noted as Items No 1,2 and 3....

Does anyone have a clue ?? I am essentially a front end designer and not back ender! I have Windows 2000 and have a Maxtor 40Gig HD but when I looked up one of the error codes it refers to windows XP !! I am confused! Any help appreciated....

Many, many thanks and very glad to have somewhere to look for help. Note: I have removed my computer name from each listing!!


Item No 1

Date: 24/06/04 Time: 17:07

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 24/06/2004
Time: 17:07:37
User: N/A

Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
The file reference 0x1000000000805 of index entry cacls.exe of index $I30
with parent 0x1a is not the same as 0x18000000000805.
Deleting index entry cacls.exe in index $I30 of file 26.
The file reference 0x1c4000000004979 of index entry CAUBKH67 of index $I30
with parent 0x2200 is not the same as 0x1c8000000004979.
Deleting index entry CAUBKH67 in index $I30 of file 8704.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 6 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 6 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 6 unused security descriptors.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

35840983 KB total disk space.
25464388 KB in 57556 files.
22420 KB in 3827 indexes.
32 KB in bad sectors.
160295 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
10193848 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
8960245 total allocation units on disk.
2548462 allocation units available on disk.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Item No 2 Date: 24/06/04 Time: 23:59

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 24/06/2004
Time: 23:59:58
User: N/A

Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 9 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 9 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 9 unused security descriptors.

35840983 KB total disk space.
25704528 KB in 59144 files.
22816 KB in 3844 indexes.
32 KB in bad sectors.
160319 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
9953288 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
8960245 total allocation units on disk.
2488322 allocation units available on disk.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Item No 3
Date: 24/06/04 time: 14:14

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 24/06/2004
Time: 14:14:43
User: N/A

Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x204000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x205000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 2052 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x205000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 2053 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x205000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 2054 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x205000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 2055 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1254000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1262000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 18808 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1262000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 18809 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1262000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 18810 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1262000 for 0x1000 bytes.
File record segment 18811 is unreadable.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x205000 for 0x400 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1262000 for 0x400 bytes.
Index entry ctdaught.dat of index $I30 in file 0x1a points to unused file
0x497a.
Deleting index entry ctdaught.dat in index $I30 of file 26.
Index entry ctstatic.dat of index $I30 in file 0x1a points to unused file
0x4978.
Deleting index entry ctstatic.dat in index $I30 of file 26.
Index entry default.ecw of index $I30 in file 0x1a points to unused file
0x497b.
Deleting index entry default.ecw in index $I30 of file 26.
Index entry cdfs.sys of index $I30 in file 0x1c points to unused file 0x806.
Deleting index entry cdfs.sys in index $I30 of file 28.
Index entry ieexinst.inf of index $I30 in file 0x104b points to unused file
0x807.
Deleting index entry ieexinst.inf in index $I30 of file 4171.
Index entry chdata.xml of index $I30 in file 0x24c2 points to unused file
0x804.
Deleting index entry chdata.xml in index $I30 of file 9410.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
Cleaning up 113 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 113 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 113 unused security descriptors.
Adding 8 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) DATA attribute.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

35840983 KB total disk space.
25475576 KB in 58781 files.
22420 KB in 3830 indexes.
32 KB in bad sectors.
160291 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
10182664 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
8960245 total allocation units on disk.
2545666 allocation units available on disk.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

 

On a CD drive there are two signal cables and one power cable. One signal cable is small (twisted pairs covered with grey or black plastic shielding) and this one caries audio signal (analogue I think) to the sound card. The other signal cable is a large ribbon cable and this provides the digital connection to the motherboard (or sound card in old systems).

The fact that you are able to get audio from the CD-ROM drive but are not able to connect to it directly via the computer interface, can be explained if it is the digital connection (via the ribbon cable) at fault, as the audio signal would be unaffected.

I would start by checking the ribbon cable is seated correctly in the CD drive and into the connector on the motherboard.

 

The chkdsk errors in the first two events are not unusual although you certainly don't enjoy seeing that many. The last event is a different matter.

I'd suggest start~run~cmd to open a command window and then chkdsk /r to do a complete scan once again. The last scan you listed showed some bad spots on the hard drive and they were marked so won't be read again. If that was all of them, no major problems but if more turn up, you may have a drive that is slowly (or not so slowly) going bad. The total amount of drive space it found as bad is small and not really significant with the size of a modern drive.

If the next run of chkdsk /r shows more bad sectors, I'd strongly suggest you back up any data you are fond of and consider getting a new drive in the very near future.