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Old November 23rd 14, 08:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
jbclem[_2_]
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Default CD-ROM device works in DOS, recognized in WinXP, but won't read or play disks

There's only one CD drive...and when I try eject from My Computer, nothing
happens, and the CD Drive light doesn't flash. When I double click on the
Z: icon in My Computer, an empty window opens up and the CD drive light
doesn't flash. Looks like there is no communication between this WinXP
installation and the drive.

I tried to run the Asus windows installation program (ASUSWIN.EXE) and up
pops a window stating:

"no matched drive detected"
"this utility is only for Asus drive 24B1ST"
"detected drives: 1-0-0-0 Z: Asus DRW-24B1ST c 1.05"

That's all I know at this point. I've found an Asus DVD Suite dish and I'll
transfer the contents to a flash drive and see if running it will make any
difference.






"Ben Myers" wrote in message
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"jbclem" wrote in message
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I checked under Explorer Bar, Folders. There's a list of the
drives/partitions and Z: is listed as "CD Drive". If I right click on
that
folder and check it's properties/Hardware there is a list of "all disk
drives" including the Asus DRW-24B1ST c and under type it's listed as
DVD/CD-ROM.

Checking udfs.sys, the one on my computer is from 2004, newer than the
ones
listed in the link that you included. This jives with the information
that
the problem (not recognizing DVD-RW disk) was corrected with WinXP sp2,
which is what I have installed.

Hope this message gets through...I answered the previous reply to this
thread but apparently my two attempts were sent but not received by the
newsgroup.


If there is more than one CD drive in the computer, right-click the "Z:"
drive in "My Computer",
then click "Eject" and make sure the correct one opens.

Ben


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