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Problem reading from optical drive


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Hello, I'm having some issues with a Windows 2000 SP3 machine. I have a sony DRU-120 DVD+RW installed, and mapped to F:. In the device manager, everyhting looks normal, and the driver seems to be properly installed.

The drive is flakey at best. I inserted one of the software install CDs it came with, and it did an autorun of the launcher program on the disk. It launched the app, then stopped. I went in w/ Explorer, and clicked on F: to view contents. The system hung for about 40 seconds, then said "F: is not accessable".

I put in another install CD, and I immediately got the accessable error. I restarted, and got similar results. If it does read the CD, it's flakey and won't run completely.

Any ideas?

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Have you tried uninstalling it in device manager and rebooting to let Windows find it again ?

No, but that's a great idea. I'll try that.

Is it new ?

It's someone elses machine, but no. It's about 3 years old.

Has it worked before ?

Yes. It has worked fine in the past.

I'll try the uninstall/reinstall. Another funny thing. I have an 80GB external HD via USB2. It works on 2 other PCs I plugged it into, but not this one. It mounts as D:. When I access it it says "this isn't formatted".

Thanks again for the help.

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