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From: ms on 16 Apr 2010 20:10 XP Home, used HP Pavilion 521n computer I'm not an expert, have searched and see a number of posts that the Samsung DVD/CD SD 616 is not a winner, I am seeing that it does not recognize a CD, when it should. Properties, Device Manager, everything seems normal. Advice on this? I also hope to salvage the CD drive, a Sony CDU7GE. In this HP machine, a top cover opens and the CD is inserted. The drive light does not come on. But the CPU activity light flickers as if it is reading the CD. But nothing happens. In Explorer, I open the CD drive, and a audio screen opens. I notice on bootup, the CD drive light flickers, so the drive is not dead. So the CD drive only recognizes a audio cd, not a data cd. This must be an XP setting. How to change the CD drive setting to recognize anything, audio or data cd? ms
From: dadiOH on 17 Apr 2010 07:46 ms wrote: > I also hope to salvage the CD drive, a Sony CDU7GE. In this HP > machine, a top cover opens and the CD is inserted. The drive light > does not come on. But the CPU activity light flickers as if it is > reading the CD. But nothing happens. In Explorer, I open the CD > drive, and a audio screen opens. I notice on bootup, the CD drive > light flickers, so the drive is not dead. > > So the CD drive only recognizes a audio cd, not a data cd. This must > be an XP setting. > > How to change the CD drive setting to recognize anything, audio or > data cd? There is no setting for that. You can get at the *autoplay* settings via Explorer, right click on drive, select properties. Have you tried to read a data CD? Play an audio CD? -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
From: Peter Foldes on 17 Apr 2010 15:47 http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cd_dvd_drive_problems -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "ms" <ms(a)invalid.com> wrote in message news:82scjoFf2iU1(a)mid.individual.net... > XP Home, used HP Pavilion 521n computer > > I'm not an expert, have searched and see a number of posts that the Samsung > DVD/CD SD 616 is not a winner, I am seeing that it does not recognize a CD, > when it should. Properties, Device Manager, everything seems normal. > > Advice on this? > > I also hope to salvage the CD drive, a Sony CDU7GE. In this HP machine, a > top cover opens and the CD is inserted. The drive light does not come on. > But the CPU activity light flickers as if it is reading the CD. But nothing > happens. In Explorer, I open the CD drive, and a audio screen opens. I > notice on bootup, the CD drive light flickers, so the drive is not dead. > > So the CD drive only recognizes a audio cd, not a data cd. This must be an > XP setting. > > How to change the CD drive setting to recognize anything, audio or data cd? > > ms
From: ms on 17 Apr 2010 17:55 "dadiOH" <dadiOH(a)invalid.com> wrote in news:OOQ2dOi3KHA.3728(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: > ms wrote: > >> I also hope to salvage the CD drive, a Sony CDU7GE. In this HP >> machine, a top cover opens and the CD is inserted. The drive light >> does not come on. But the CPU activity light flickers as if it is >> reading the CD. But nothing happens. In Explorer, I open the CD >> drive, and a audio screen opens. I notice on bootup, the CD drive >> light flickers, so the drive is not dead. >> >> So the CD drive only recognizes a audio cd, not a data cd. This must >> be an XP setting. >> >> How to change the CD drive setting to recognize anything, audio or >> data cd? > > There is no setting for that. You can get at the *autoplay* settings > via Explorer, right click on drive, select properties. > > Have you tried to read a data CD? Play an audio CD? > Referring to the Sony CD drive, as I said in my OP, it would not recognize a data disk. The disk I tried was a disk that included data files and executable files. I don't have a audio CD handy right now, but my interest is in the drive for data files. I opened autoplay settings, have a choice of audio files, video files, etc, only one possibility is "mixed content files". I selected it, open folders, Apply, closed the screen. Then opened properties again, the change did not happen, it still reads music files. In Explorer, I selected the cd drive, with a data cd I get a listing of (IIRC) *.tca- a music extension. The info I can find on this Sony drive does not say audio only. I have another XP computer, the CD drive handles files just like any other machine I've seen. This is the only machine that sees everything as an audio file. ms
From: dadiOH on 18 Apr 2010 07:26
ms wrote: > "dadiOH" <dadiOH(a)invalid.com> wrote in > news:OOQ2dOi3KHA.3728(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: > >> ms wrote: >> >>> I also hope to salvage the CD drive, a Sony CDU7GE. In this HP >>> machine, a top cover opens and the CD is inserted. The drive light >>> does not come on. But the CPU activity light flickers as if it is >>> reading the CD. But nothing happens. In Explorer, I open the CD >>> drive, and a audio screen opens. I notice on bootup, the CD drive >>> light flickers, so the drive is not dead. >>> >>> So the CD drive only recognizes a audio cd, not a data cd. This must >>> be an XP setting. >>> >>> How to change the CD drive setting to recognize anything, audio or >>> data cd? >> >> There is no setting for that. You can get at the *autoplay* settings >> via Explorer, right click on drive, select properties. >> >> Have you tried to read a data CD? Play an audio CD? >> > > Referring to the Sony CD drive, as I said in my OP, it would not > recognize a data disk. The disk I tried was a disk that included data > files and executable files. I don't have a audio CD handy right now, > but my interest is in the drive for data files. > > I opened autoplay settings, have a choice of audio files, video > files, etc, only one possibility is "mixed content files". I selected > it, open folders, Apply, closed the screen. Then opened properties > again, the change did not happen, it still reads music files. In > Explorer, I selected the cd drive, with a data cd I get a listing of > (IIRC) *.tca- a music extension. The autoplay doesn't affect the ability of the OS to read a disc, only what program the OS will open or what it will do when a disc with files of a particular type is inserted. ________________ > The info I can find on this Sony drive does not say audio only. I have > another XP computer, the CD drive handles files just like any other > machine I've seen. This is the only machine that sees everything as > an audio file. Audio is data too, no such thing as an audio only drive There is a problem with either the disc or the OS. Why don't you use the problem machine to burn some files to a blank CD and see what happens. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |