My killer test is this.
1. Use a CD lens cleaner.
2. Boot from a silver factory made CD.
No boot? Replace the CD drive.
It's a common sign of an aging drive for it to become finicky, read some disks and not others. It's not fun to watch an owner go into denial mode for a month or two while they search for drivers and firmware. But it happens.
Bob
I can't access my E: drive which is my DVD ROM drive. It powers up, lights go on, disk inserts, then won't access the drive with the usual "Drive not accessible" message. The drive shows up in My Computer and Explorer, I can also right click and use eject ok. It seems the disk is not being detected. It's started doing this just recently but it dosn't detect any disks at all. Do I need a new DVD drive? can I check the drive somehow? I tried re-installing Windows hoping it was a driver problem, but no joy and control panel says the drive is working ok...I'm stumped
Running Win98 SE

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