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D Drive not accessible -- Device manager says functioning OK

May 19, 2005 6:02AM PDT

Win98SE P3 800 Mhz 256 RAM ; Mitsumi CR4804te CD/RW

This has been a sturdy machine -- but a couple of lock ups and one blue screen happened. could only restart each with the longheld press on the power button.

Now I can not play or explore a CD, though the D drive is visible in My Computer, and device manager sees no problem, functioning normally.

have already dealt the *.vxd's that can cause conflicts.

I searched for newer drivers but there is nothing newer than version 3.0d as far as I can tell.

What else can i check?

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Just sharing..
May 19, 2005 6:11AM PDT

My dad's machine had from memory that same drive. Its dead now and while dieing would cause lockup. Windows also thought it worked.

Try another drive.

Bob

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It just started working again
May 19, 2005 6:48AM PDT

Hi Bob

(When the machine locked up the first two times, the D drive was not in use. I was trying to open a CD when it did lock the third time.

Now it is working. I did not do anything much; just tried to scan the registry for errors -- none. Then i thought to use the soundcard to play the CD -- Creative Live! has a Playcenter which can find music sources.
The CD/RW drive played. Then I re-installed WMPlayer 9 (which uses very little resources on this machine)and it started to find the songs too.

-- I can not explain the inaccessibility -- it was not just WMP because I could not open the drive through My Computer either. You still believe that the drive is dying? I don't play CDs much on it, nor use it as a ROM, but I do burn occasionally, with excellent results. I realise it's now 5 years old, but it has not done that many miles.

Cheers
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