[pchelpers] Re: CD Drives aren't working

by the way - I have windows 98....

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:18:36 +0100
>From: amandawardle@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [pchelpers] CD Drives aren't working
>To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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>
>Hi,
>My PC has a CDRW / DVD Samsung combo drive and also a CD drive. A week
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>the combo drive stopped working (it says d: not ready when I try and rea=
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>disks) - I thought I might have had a virus as I had been on winmx downl=
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>ading
>music - and wasn't sure my Norton AV was working properly. I also seemed=

>to have something called PTsnoop running in the background - which has
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>nflicting
>write ups on the internet. I have now re-installed NAV and installed a
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>mantec
>firewall (please don't tell me they're bad?). I've managed to stop PTSno=
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>running. I reinstalled the combo driver from the Time support web site
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>it was a generic CDRW driver.
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>But - neither of my drives work now, both say they are not ready and whe=
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>I look in devices, though there are no conflicts, only one drive is ment=
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>oned.
>I can see them being recognised at boot up.
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>Can anyone help - what more information do you need?
>
>Thanks!
>
>

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