dvd drive

[eieman]

im wondering can sum 1 help me out my dvd writer stopped working the other day so i i took it out and popped in my cd writer and that is not working i checked the cables and there in place ok.. the computer says the drives is working ..any ideas?? could it be the cable is damaged?

Pioneer 105 DVD Re-Writer
:mail: martyc32@hotmail.com

[PhilEnfield]

Need a bit more information m8

What OS ? ...... when you say the 105 stopped working ... what actually happened, what error message(s) did you get, what burning software etc.

The more info you give, the better chance of someone helping you ;)

[eieman]

sorry about the lack of information
o/s windows 98se
what happened was i tried accessing the drive playing a mp3cd and it just wouldnt open or access

[punkass76]

try re installing the drive

[ken]

I had the same problem last week with a CD drive, unpluged the cable then pluged it in again problem solved, must have been a bad conection.

[Jesterrace]

Sounds like the drivers got screwed up. As mentioned, try unplugging them and plugging it back in. Did you install any new software with a different version of Direct X on it? Did you install any new burning/media playing software recently?

[PhilEnfield]

Windows 98se could be in need of a re-install .... not the most stable of systems at the best of times.

IMO, if you are intending to do DVD backups etc., it would be a wise move to consider upgrading to XP.

[THComputers]

try removing the drive(s) in device manager and restarting so it finds them

xp is a good idea though, the maximum file size is ~4gb using 98se (fat32 file system)

if you get xp you can use partition magic to convert to ntfs which allows far bigger files so you can handle 4.7gb dvd images

[Elaine]

Actually I've dual booted with XP and Win98 for ages and it's very stable. :) However for your purposes, upgrading to XP would be an extremely good idea, using NTFS because of the extended workable file size.

[PhilEnfield]

Actually I've dual booted with XP and Win98 for ages and it's very stable. :) However for your purposes, upgrading to XP would be an extremely good idea, using NTFS because of the extended workable file size.Actually .... I had a similar setup, when I upgraded to XP, some few years back ... I just couldn't leave W98 behind ;)

When I installed my new HD, I just went with XP Pro & didn't bother with the dual boot setup. Dont know about you, but, although I had the W98 option, I never used it, it was just taking up valuable disk space.

[THComputers]

yeah i have xp/98se dual boot my old pc for chip/wafer and gsm stuff, xp isnt so tolerant of peoples home made programs