Cannot read from CD-R

Hello

Today I discovered that I cannot read any pictures (jpeg format) from any CD-R medium with my CD drive.

On the other hand I can read from a DVD-R medium as normal.

Can anybody please tell me what can be the problem?

Thanks in advance ...

 

Did you create the CD-R from another PC?

If so, did you finalise the disk before putting it into your current machine?

Some disks require you to finalise the disk before they can be read on another drive.

 

Hi,

Try the following:

1) Try cleaning the CD with a soft cloth
2) Try reading the CD-R in another drive
3) Try to change the spin speed on the CD drive to a lower setting. I think you can do it through the Control Panel.

 

thanks a lot for your posts....

Yes the cd was finalised and it is clean.

I did use the cd before on the same cd rom drive with no trouble at all.
Cd works fine in another drive!

Today I discovered that it's not reading CD-Rs. It is reading like its a new cd with 0 bytes....

Confused ....

 

Any help???

 

usually it is a lens issue.
In order to clean the lens properly, but a little bit of rubbing alcohol on a q-tip and slowly rotate the q-tip in a circular fashion on the lens.
Do not push hard, because you may crack the lens.
Clean until the lens looks clean.

This is usually the problem. If the lens has dust on it, the index of refraction for the lens changes, resulting in the lens not working properly.

If this does not work, its time to get an external optical drive or a new internal optical drive.

K-TRON

 

See if you can delete the upper/lower filters.

(Does it burn CDs ?)

Download a Linux LiveCD, (burn it on a CD using another computer), and boot from it. It'll boot straight from the CD, into Linux, without touching the HDD. If the CD works fine, reads fine, then it is a software issue.

Also check for any music management software (with DRM) from Sony or Apple.

Also, patch upto the latest SP, and critical updates for Windows. (XP MCE ?)

 

Sounds like the mechanism is out of alignment. I've seen this kind of failure with DVD players where they will stop reading the CD or DVD types of disks. The only fix I know of is to replace the drive.

 

dkwhite actually the drive is reading the cd and it knows that a cd is inserted but it reads it as empty while in fact it has data burnt on it....

Regarding dirty lens, I doubt it. Since my CD/DVD RAM drive is a slot mechanism and not tray. So probably dirt on the lens is minimal, although I'm not excluding it....

And lastly, I barely want to accept that I end up having to change my Drive. I hardly use it ... rare occasions when burning DVDs, mostly.... and running DVD movies...

Still I believe there's something wrong with my drive that can be fixed....
Any more opinions?!

Have to check if it's capable to burn CD-R medium.


Thanks a lot for your posts!!!

 

Did you try using the CD Drive before windows loads ? Its most probably a software issue (since it has no problem reading DVDs).

If you cannot try out a Linux LiveCD, see if reinstalling the OS fixes the problem.

To get some info regarding your ODD, checkout this tool.

 

yeah test boooting with a CD-R, if you don't have the time to fix a livecd, just do a bootable CD with nero or such, maybe burn out memtest86 as a bootable ( can find it here http://www.memtest86.com/download.html ), anything that will boot
As Andy says, if it can boot via the CD-R we know it's software related.

 

Hello again

Thanks a lot for your posts!

I think it is a driver problem.
Tried to boot up from the drive a Linux Version of Ubuntu.
When reading the CD trying to load, the following message appeared;

"SmartDrive cannot be loaded becasue the XMSdriver, HIMEM.SYS is not loaded.
Check the config.sys file for a device=himem.sys command line."

Now I need further help from all of you!

Hope this will lead to somewhere....

Indeed thanks for the help!

 

Hello,

Any further help???
Read the above post ....

THanks

 

Another way for do it.
try to use CD Ext for boot it.

 

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thanks!