CD-Rom drive inaccessible

[Book Worm]

After finally cleaning up the the mess from an adopted computer, I'm now down to 3 problems:

1) My Sony PCV 70/90, running Windows 95, suddenly stopped reading my CD-Rom drive (Atapi 31a). Connection/motor is fine. All settings appear to be ok. Tried rebooting w/o luck. Device manager indicates everything is fine.

2) Still can't access internet via Explorer. (Trying to re-install AOL, but can't do it until problem #1 is solved.)

3) Haven't won the lottery yet.

Any answers or $$$ is appreciated.

 

[markshark09]

hey
i had that same kind of problem just a few days ago. I had a 40X cdrom and all of a sudden it just stopped responding. It still was listed ok in the device manager and the motor was still ok. I took the cdrom out of the case opened it up and made sure the tray was working correctly, it opened and closed fine but i found out that the lens was really dusty, dont ask me why but by cleaning that with a dry cloth I fixed the problem completelyIf you have any more questions email me

 

[Book Worm]

Just tried it... Nada. I also tried uninstalling Win95, and start from scratch, but the [email protected]#$%^& thing won't let me remove the program! I'm starting to think my problems are bigger than I realize... help!

 

[markshark09]

sorry i couldn't help ya. If i can think of anything else ill tell ya.

Hope your problems are solved soon

 

[slipe]

You can’t uninstall Win95. You have to format the HD which removes everything. You can install Win95 over itself but it usually doesn’t help with problems unless you are missing a file.

Try going to device manager and removing the CD-ROM. Reboot and Windows will reinstall it.

 

[Book Worm]

Been there, done that. I already formatted my HD, and tried reinstalling Win95. But because the software was on CD-Rom, naturally there is no valid drive to download it from. I finally had a tech come out & verified that my drive is dead. So guess what I'm asking Santa for Christmas???

Thanx for the 411, guys.