J Eklund J.D.
July 14th 04, 07:21 AM
I'm experiencing two problems with my D: drive.
First:
After I insert an audio CD into my D:drive (the CD rom
drive)and try to use the system's CD player, it says that
no CD is inserted. So it's obviously not detecting it or
able to read it. So it doesn't play the CD, of course.
When I try to use another Audio program like Windows Media
or Winamp, these programs read the CD and post it's
information like the number of tracks and the length of
each one. However, none of these programs will actually
play the CD either.
Because I was having this problem, I checked on the
set-up and configuration of the D drive. I did the
following, in sequence: Start; Settings; Control Panel;
System; CD Rom; right click on Properties; Settings. In
the Settings dialogue box, it said the device/drive was
working properly. No other choices appearred to need to
be changed. I saw, though, that below the designation of
the drive assignment, which showed 'D:', there were two
boxes for reserved drive assignments, one for starting
drive letter and one for ending drive letter. Both of
these boxes were empty and that seemed strange. I thought
it meant that I was given an option to reserve the D drive
as a cd rom drive so that, I guess, it then could not
become a shared drive, which I don't want it to be. So I
chose D for both the starting and ending drive letters and
restarted my computer to activate the new settings.
Ever since then, the drive is 'Not Ready'. I have
learned that if the cd rom drive letter is the same as the
reserved drive letters, I will not be able to access the
drive.
I think entering drive letters in the reserved
assignment boxes, then, is causing my second problem. I
would guess that the remedy for this problem would be to
unassign the reserved drive letters, like they were before
I changed anything. But, the pull down menu for choosing
a drive letter (In the start and end boxes for the
reserved drive) includes all the letters a thru z for
choices, but does not include a choice of 'none', nor does
the entry of a letter in the box delete when It's
highlighted in blue in the box and I press either the
space bar or delete; which will normally delete an entry
in these windows choice boxes. It simply remains as the
choice in the boxes.
So, I really need to know how to delete the
assignment of a reserved drive letter in that settings
dialogue box, like it was to start with, so that I will
once again have no conflicts or overlapping with my D
drive and I can at least have an operable CD rom drive.
This second problem, though, had a specific change in
settings by me which I can see caused that problem.
Especially since text CD's and any other data-type CDs had
been working properly in the D drive before I made the
changes. On the other hand, the first problem, explained
above, already existed before this one and I gotta believe
that it's cause and remedy are something I still don't
know.
Can someone please assist me in 1: Figuring out why
the Windows CD player will not read my CD's when other
audio programs will - and why none of the programs will
play my audio CDs, even though other format-types of CDs
are read and used fine by my PC?; AND 2: How do I reverse
my settings choices for my rom drive so the entries for
the reserved drive letter assignments will once again be
empty and will have no letter chosen?
Your assistance will be gratly appreciated. I thank you
inadvance for a response at your very earliest convenience.
Thankfully,
Julie Eklund, J.D.
First:
After I insert an audio CD into my D:drive (the CD rom
drive)and try to use the system's CD player, it says that
no CD is inserted. So it's obviously not detecting it or
able to read it. So it doesn't play the CD, of course.
When I try to use another Audio program like Windows Media
or Winamp, these programs read the CD and post it's
information like the number of tracks and the length of
each one. However, none of these programs will actually
play the CD either.
Because I was having this problem, I checked on the
set-up and configuration of the D drive. I did the
following, in sequence: Start; Settings; Control Panel;
System; CD Rom; right click on Properties; Settings. In
the Settings dialogue box, it said the device/drive was
working properly. No other choices appearred to need to
be changed. I saw, though, that below the designation of
the drive assignment, which showed 'D:', there were two
boxes for reserved drive assignments, one for starting
drive letter and one for ending drive letter. Both of
these boxes were empty and that seemed strange. I thought
it meant that I was given an option to reserve the D drive
as a cd rom drive so that, I guess, it then could not
become a shared drive, which I don't want it to be. So I
chose D for both the starting and ending drive letters and
restarted my computer to activate the new settings.
Ever since then, the drive is 'Not Ready'. I have
learned that if the cd rom drive letter is the same as the
reserved drive letters, I will not be able to access the
drive.
I think entering drive letters in the reserved
assignment boxes, then, is causing my second problem. I
would guess that the remedy for this problem would be to
unassign the reserved drive letters, like they were before
I changed anything. But, the pull down menu for choosing
a drive letter (In the start and end boxes for the
reserved drive) includes all the letters a thru z for
choices, but does not include a choice of 'none', nor does
the entry of a letter in the box delete when It's
highlighted in blue in the box and I press either the
space bar or delete; which will normally delete an entry
in these windows choice boxes. It simply remains as the
choice in the boxes.
So, I really need to know how to delete the
assignment of a reserved drive letter in that settings
dialogue box, like it was to start with, so that I will
once again have no conflicts or overlapping with my D
drive and I can at least have an operable CD rom drive.
This second problem, though, had a specific change in
settings by me which I can see caused that problem.
Especially since text CD's and any other data-type CDs had
been working properly in the D drive before I made the
changes. On the other hand, the first problem, explained
above, already existed before this one and I gotta believe
that it's cause and remedy are something I still don't
know.
Can someone please assist me in 1: Figuring out why
the Windows CD player will not read my CD's when other
audio programs will - and why none of the programs will
play my audio CDs, even though other format-types of CDs
are read and used fine by my PC?; AND 2: How do I reverse
my settings choices for my rom drive so the entries for
the reserved drive letter assignments will once again be
empty and will have no letter chosen?
Your assistance will be gratly appreciated. I thank you
inadvance for a response at your very earliest convenience.
Thankfully,
Julie Eklund, J.D.