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CD Drive wont reconize new disks

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Disco_Stu

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Mar 4, 2003
When I take out a CD from my rom drive and replace it with another one, the CD drive keeps telling me that I have the same one in. Like right now, it says "Vice City Play" when the UTtk3 disk is in. It even shows Vice city files when I open up the drive in My computer. Any one know what its problem is? Think it's dirty or something?
 
do you have roxio 5 platinum? It screwed up my cd drive and i had to do a complete reformat of my HDD. It made mine only recognize previouse cd's very similar to what you described, and randomly (80% of the time) didnt recognize anything at all.
 
Check your IDE cable too. I've seen loose IDE cables cause that kind of a problem on more than one occasion. You didn't mention if you have more than one drive. If so, do both drives do it or just one? Modenaf1's suggestion about Roxio is good too. If you've got it, try uninstalling it, or at least uninstall the DirectCD portion. Oh yeah, and try clearing out your startup if you've got a lot of stuff loading.
 
just the one drive does it. the cdrw drive is fine. but its loud as a .... so i dont use it unless im burning something. dont have roxio, never have. and the harddrive was JUST formated, complete reinstall. nothing loads cept folding and samurize.
 
im having the same prob with a system i just built.
changed IDE's 3 times and sitll the same
sometimes it works sometimes not

i just restart it when it doesnt work
as im still trying to figure out whats wrong
 
If it only happens on the one drive then it is most likely NOT software, though it could still be. Try booting to a boot diskette with CDROM support and test it in DOS. If it works perfectly there, then you are probably still looking at a software problem. If it still messes up there, then try reseating or even replacing the IDE cable. If that STILL doesn't do it, your drive is probably borked. Try cleaning it, else replace it.
 
It's a CDROM. It shouldn't HAVE any special drivers. I've never seen a special drivers for any CDROM device in Windows beyond what's already built in.

Honestly, if I had to put money on it, I'd say the problem is a bad drive.
 
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