CD disappeared under XP Pro 1

[lgvelez]

I have a Teac CD-W512EB CD burner which has been doing fine for over a year with XP. Yesterday it decided to disappear. If I uninstall it to let itself find itself again, it tells me that the drivers have a problem. How, I have a list of the drivers and have deleted them, but how do I get to reinstall? I copied I386 folder from the install cd so I can access the files, but how do you do a repair without booting from the cd? Obviously, that's not gonna happen!! Did XP come with the ability to make boot floppies or did that end with Win2K?

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TIA ... Laura in TX

Laura Velez, MCP
lauravelez@charter.net

 

[bcastner]

MS still offers boot disks:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994

But I suspect the problem is that the CD drive has died, and no repair effort is going to help.

 

[linney]

You could try using system restore to get back before the problem and see if that fixes any software problem.

 

[lgvelez]

Well, so far I have checked all connections, deinstalled the burner in XP, rebooted, and then tried to reinstall it, and did a total install (repair) of XP.
The bewildering thing to me is that CMOS finds it when I boot up, and then it disappears from XP.

Thanks, Laura (now looking for a new good cd burner)

Laura Velez, MCP
lauravelez@charter.net

 

[bcastner]

See these articles first:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

And go to:

http://www.dougknox.com/index.html

Look under "XP Fixes"
Then download "Restore CD Rom Drives to Explorer"

 

[lgvelez]

Thank you, bcastner ... your references aimed me at what the problem was ... Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 had a corrupted file. I deinstalled, rebooted, then ran the restore CD rom drives to explorer, rebooted, and they magically reappeared!

Everyone, I really appreciate your help! To do a full CD copy, what other programs are good?

Thanks again, Laura in TX

Laura Velez, MCP
lauravelez@charter.net

 

[bcastner]

I like Nero:

http://www.nero.com