CDR prevents XP from booting?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by yeeha, Aug 6, 2006.

  1. yeeha

    yeeha Private First Class

    I am having some problems with my CDRW drive. The drive is "good", meaning that it reads and writes CDs without apparent problem, but about 1 in every 4 boots, the drive fails to initialize or something, and just sits there with the indicator light blinking.

    When this happens, XP will not finish booting at all, and I have to force poweroff. I hate doing this -- isn't it bad for the hard disk and other components?

    I am running the latest BIOS for my machine and the firmware on the CD drive is current. Is there anything I can do short of disconnecting the drive and having to open my machine up and reconnect it any time I want to burn a CD?
     
    yeeha, Aug 6, 2006
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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Would be the first thing to do ....(open the computer up - with it off!!! and disconnect then reconnect - as in make sure the ide cable is FULLY seated ...k?:)
     
    TimW, Aug 6, 2006
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