Cannot get this machine to read the e-drive

Two things going on here.
1. When I put disk in my CD-RW drive all it dose is blink blink blink with a
yellow light. It will not read the CD.
2. Also when I try to format a new CD-RW disk I get a 000a8-0003-0006-0000
error msg. on this machine. I have went to the NERO web site and it said that
I should delete all Virus scan for which I did, but the same thing happens.
Is there away that I can fix this or do I have to put this thing in the shop.
I have had this machine for over six years now, it has 256MB ram and a Intel
Celeron Processor 1300MHZ as old as it is it has the the right stuff I think.
Can somebody please help me?
--
forever lost on this machine!

Mike
Sat Oct 07 15:40:53 CDT 2006

Can you play audio CDs in the drive? It's quite possible that the drive
has failed, they do after some years. Try booting to DOS using a Win Me
boot floppy, choose to boot "with CD support" from the menu, insert a CD
containing data, preferably manufactured rather than a CD you have
written. At the DOS prompt type
DIR D:\
If your CD drive is not D, then use the appropriate letter. Do you see
the contents of the disk listed or does the directory listing fail? If
the DOS listing fails then I feel the drive is most likely to be dead. If
OK, then one needs to start narrowing down the problem, starting with
determining what types of disks can be read in Windows and which not.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com


tujaxx <tujaxx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Two things going on here.
> 1. When I put disk in my CD-RW drive all it dose is blink blink blink
> with a yellow light. It will not read the CD.
> 2. Also when I try to format a new CD-RW disk I get a
> 000a8-0003-0006-0000 error msg. on this machine. I have went to the
> NERO web site and it said that I should delete all Virus scan for
> which I did, but the same thing happens. Is there away that I can fix
> this or do I have to put this thing in the shop. I have had this
> machine for over six years now, it has 256MB ram and a Intel Celeron
> Processor 1300MHZ as old as it is it has the the right stuff I think.
> Can somebody please help me?

Heirloom
Sun Oct 08 10:31:09 CDT 2006

+1 on Mike's answer.......just to provide some backup, my Sony optical drive
failed after less than a year. It was working fine one evening and the next
morning, it would not read a CD or DVD. The best part is that a new drive
is quite inexpensive for a decent one. I bought a LiteOn drive, dual layer,
for less than $40, delivered. Shop around for the best deal. I would
recommend staying away from the Lightscribe capable drives, the disks are
still too expensive and the writing process is painfully slow. For the same
money, you can get an inexpensive ink jet printer that will print directly
to a CD/DVD (i.e. Epson R220, also prints borderless 4 x6 pics) and make
some very professional looking disks. Of course, you need to have the
'printable' disks, which sell for about 3-5 cents more each. The entire
printing process only takes about a minute in full color, whereas the
lightscribe process can take 20+ minutes and is only capable of sepia tones.

Changing your drive, unless your old one is of proprietary shape, is very
easy......just a matter of opening the case (make sure the power is
disconnected and you ground yourself to a bare metal portion of the case),
remove the mounting screws, unplug the old and plug in the new. In most
instances, the OS will recognize the new equipment and install a generic
driver that works just fine, or, you can go to the manufacturer's website
and dl'd the latest driver.
Heirloom, old and
like my LiteOn

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
news:OGvhlDl6GHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Can you play audio CDs in the drive? It's quite possible that the drive
> has failed, they do after some years. Try booting to DOS using a Win Me
> boot floppy, choose to boot "with CD support" from the menu, insert a CD
> containing data, preferably manufactured rather than a CD you have
> written. At the DOS prompt type
> DIR D:\
> If your CD drive is not D, then use the appropriate letter. Do you see
> the contents of the disk listed or does the directory listing fail? If
> the DOS listing fails then I feel the drive is most likely to be dead. If
> OK, then one needs to start narrowing down the problem, starting with
> determining what types of disks can be read in Windows and which not.
> --
> Mike Maltby
> mike.maltby@gmail.com

Joan
Sun Oct 08 14:23:42 CDT 2006

Hi Heirloom
Didn't realise you had a LiteOn, that's what I had put in when my CDRW
drive failed, trouble is I haven't even burnt a DVD yet <g> SonicMyDVD
came with the drive plus I also have Nero installed.
Joan


Heirloom wrote:
> +1 on Mike's answer.......just to provide some backup, my Sony
> optical drive failed after less than a year. It was working fine one
> evening and the next morning, it would not read a CD or DVD. The
> best part is that a new drive is quite inexpensive for a decent one. I
> bought a LiteOn drive, dual layer, for less than $40, delivered. Shop
> around for the best deal. I would recommend staying away from
> the Lightscribe capable drives, the disks are still too expensive and
> the writing process is painfully slow. For the same money, you can
> get an inexpensive ink jet printer that will print directly to a
> CD/DVD (i.e. Epson R220, also prints borderless 4 x6 pics) and make
> some very professional looking disks. Of course, you need to have the
> 'printable' disks, which sell for about 3-5 cents more each. The
> entire printing process only takes about a minute in full color,
> whereas the lightscribe process can take 20+ minutes and is only
> capable of sepia tones.
> Changing your drive, unless your old one is of proprietary shape, is
> very easy......just a matter of opening the case (make sure the power
> is disconnected and you ground yourself to a bare metal portion of
> the case), remove the mounting screws, unplug the old and plug in the
> new. In most instances, the OS will recognize the new equipment and
> install a generic driver that works just fine, or, you can go to the
> manufacturer's website and dl'd the latest driver.
> Heirloom, old
> and like my LiteOn
>

Mart
Sun Oct 08 15:10:44 CDT 2006

Joan wrote :-

> ... trouble is I haven't even burnt a DVD yet <g>

Story of my life Joan, with these darned computer things - the hours and
money I've spent obtaining a piece of (almost 'leading-edge' hardware - and
software!) only to never use it once installed <bg>

Mart


"Joan Archer" <archer_joan@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:etvPY9w6GHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Heirloom
> Didn't realise you had a LiteOn, that's what I had put in when my CDRW
> drive failed, trouble is I haven't even burnt a DVD yet <g> SonicMyDVD
> came with the drive plus I also have Nero installed.
> Joan
>
<snip>

walter666
Sun Oct 08 15:15:59 CDT 2006

I recently bought a Liteon DVD/CD-RW for about $25 and am very happy with
it.

"Heirloom" <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote in message
news:#QGz93u6GHA.4232@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> +1 on Mike's answer.......just to provide some backup, my Sony optical
drive
> failed after less than a year. It was working fine one evening and the
next
> morning, it would not read a CD or DVD. The best part is that a new drive
> is quite inexpensive for a decent one. I bought a LiteOn drive, dual
layer,
> for less than $40, delivered. Shop around for the best deal. I would
> recommend staying away from the Lightscribe capable drives, the disks are
> still too expensive and the writing process is painfully slow. For the
same
> money, you can get an inexpensive ink jet printer that will print directly
> to a CD/DVD (i.e. Epson R220, also prints borderless 4 x6 pics) and make
> some very professional looking disks. Of course, you need to have the
> 'printable' disks, which sell for about 3-5 cents more each. The entire
> printing process only takes about a minute in full color, whereas the
> lightscribe process can take 20+ minutes and is only capable of sepia
tones.
>
> Changing your drive, unless your old one is of proprietary shape, is very
> easy......just a matter of opening the case (make sure the power is
> disconnected and you ground yourself to a bare metal portion of the case),
> remove the mounting screws, unplug the old and plug in the new. In most
> instances, the OS will recognize the new equipment and install a generic
> driver that works just fine, or, you can go to the manufacturer's website
> and dl'd the latest driver.
> Heirloom, old and
> like my LiteOn
>
> "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
> news:OGvhlDl6GHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Can you play audio CDs in the drive? It's quite possible that the drive
> > has failed, they do after some years. Try booting to DOS using a Win Me
> > boot floppy, choose to boot "with CD support" from the menu, insert a CD
> > containing data, preferably manufactured rather than a CD you have
> > written. At the DOS prompt type
> > DIR D:\
> > If your CD drive is not D, then use the appropriate letter. Do you see
> > the contents of the disk listed or does the directory listing fail? If
> > the DOS listing fails then I feel the drive is most likely to be dead.
If
> > OK, then one needs to start narrowing down the problem, starting with
> > determining what types of disks can be read in Windows and which not.
> > --
> > Mike Maltby
> > mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
>

Mike
Sun Oct 08 16:03:09 CDT 2006

Mart <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote:

> Joan wrote :-
>
>> ... trouble is I haven't even burnt a DVD yet <g>
>
> Story of my life Joan, with these darned computer things - the hours
> and money I've spent obtaining a piece of (almost 'leading-edge'
> hardware - and software!) only to never use it once installed <bg>

Which reminds me Mart, I'm about to start on that small job I promised
you. I really hadn't forgotten but now the nights are drawing in I think
I'd better try and finish the job.
--
Mike

Mart
Sun Oct 08 18:05:19 CDT 2006

Hey Mike - no subliminal reminders included (and certainly not intended)
<vbg> but thanks for remembering.

Mart


"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
news:%23P8ZP1x6GHA.4620@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Mart <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>
>> Joan wrote :-
>>
>>> ... trouble is I haven't even burnt a DVD yet <g>
>>
>> Story of my life Joan, with these darned computer things - the hours
>> and money I've spent obtaining a piece of (almost 'leading-edge'
>> hardware - and software!) only to never use it once installed <bg>
>
> Which reminds me Mart, I'm about to start on that small job I promised
> you. I really hadn't forgotten but now the nights are drawing in I think
> I'd better try and finish the job.
> --
> Mike
>
>

Heirloom
Sun Oct 08 21:00:25 CDT 2006

Hey Joanie,
Yup, got a LiteOn....can't remember the model and too lazy to find
the box or open Device Mgr. Re: the Sonic app, if it is the same one I
have, it is a fairly decent program. I have used it numerous times (I have
so many CD/DVD apps, I usually don't install anything that comes with a
drive.....I have many unopened if you need some). You do know that the
Sonic program has a backup feature???.......I haven't used it since I have
everything backed up with Acronis.
My other one is an HP, DVD640, DL, Lightscribe........hence, my
opinions on the Lightscribe feature.
Heirloom, old and go burn
something!

"Joan Archer" <archer_joan@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:etvPY9w6GHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Heirloom
> Didn't realise you had a LiteOn, that's what I had put in when my CDRW
> drive failed, trouble is I haven't even burnt a DVD yet <g> SonicMyDVD
> came with the drive plus I also have Nero installed.
> Joan
>
>
> Heirloom wrote:
>> +1 on Mike's answer.......just to provide some backup, my Sony
>> optical drive failed after less than a year. It was working fine one
>> evening and the next morning, it would not read a CD or DVD. The
>> best part is that a new drive is quite inexpensive for a decent one. I
>> bought a LiteOn drive, dual layer, for less than $40, delivered. Shop
>> around for the best deal. I would recommend staying away from
>> the Lightscribe capable drives, the disks are still too expensive and
>> the writing process is painfully slow. For the same money, you can
>> get an inexpensive ink jet printer that will print directly to a
>> CD/DVD (i.e. Epson R220, also prints borderless 4 x6 pics) and make
>> some very professional looking disks. Of course, you need to have the
>> 'printable' disks, which sell for about 3-5 cents more each. The
>> entire printing process only takes about a minute in full color,
>> whereas the lightscribe process can take 20+ minutes and is only
>> capable of sepia tones.
>> Changing your drive, unless your old one is of proprietary shape, is
>> very easy......just a matter of opening the case (make sure the power
>> is disconnected and you ground yourself to a bare metal portion of
>> the case), remove the mounting screws, unplug the old and plug in the
>> new. In most instances, the OS will recognize the new equipment and
>> install a generic driver that works just fine, or, you can go to the
>> manufacturer's website and dl'd the latest driver.
>> Heirloom, old
>> and like my LiteOn
>>
>
>

Joan
Mon Oct 09 06:54:07 CDT 2006

Mines a LiteOn DVDRW LDW - 451S and the Sonic app is the one that came
with the drive, version 4.5 I'm using it at the moment when putting
photo's onto CD's because it's the program I started to burn with so don't
want to change until the CD's full <g>
Joan

Heirloom wrote:
> Hey Joanie,
> Yup, got a LiteOn....can't remember the model and too lazy to
> find the box or open Device Mgr. Re: the Sonic app, if it is the
> same one I have, it is a fairly decent program. I have used it
> numerous times (I have so many CD/DVD apps, I usually don't install
> anything that comes with a drive.....I have many unopened if you need
> some). You do know that the Sonic program has a backup
> feature???.......I haven't used it since I have everything backed up
> with Acronis. My other one is an HP, DVD640, DL,
> Lightscribe........hence, my opinions on the Lightscribe feature.
> Heirloom, old and go burn
> something!
>

Joan
Mon Oct 09 06:56:05 CDT 2006

<lol> I know that feeling Mart, not enough hours in the day, and I spend
too many on here as it is <g>
Joan

Mart wrote:
> Joan wrote :-
>
>> ... trouble is I haven't even burnt a DVD yet <g>
>
> Story of my life Joan, with these darned computer things - the hours
> and money I've spent obtaining a piece of (almost 'leading-edge'
> hardware - and software!) only to never use it once installed <bg>
>
> Mart
>
>