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Can't fully access (a:) and (d:) drives and master boot records.
I have a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS laptop that includes a floppy disk drive
(a and a CDROM drive (d. (1) I cannot access these drives properly. The floppy disk drive can read some floppy disks and not others. Some disks it signals as not properly formatted, others it states it cannot access. The CDROM drive can access audio disks but the disks spin only very slowly and the playback gets interrupted the way buffering interrupts streaming audio. The CDROM drive cannot access data disks right now, although it used to if I could get the CD to spin at full speed. Accordingly, now when I boot the computer with the Windows 98 2nd edition disk in the drive, the CDROM drive does not spin the disk at high speed and fails to read the disk. When I put the Startup Diskette in the floppy drive there is no result. (2) Also Norton Antivirus cannot access the (c hard drive's master boot records when I run a virus scan. Otherwise, Windows 98 2nd edition is working properly. All external modems are working properly (PCMCIA card to access internet and dial-up modem). I'm worried about when it comes time to do an over-the-top reinstall of the operating system: no access to the floppydisk/CD drives. I have not "run" the SFC (system file checker). The last time I did, and corrected a couple of found errors, it caused me to have to do an over-the-top reinstall of Windows 98 2nd edition. There was not a problem with the floppydisk/CD drives then, which developed gradually and suddenly reached the current dire state. I have 700 MB of free memory on the 4 GB hard drive. A year ago I had the CDROM drive checked by a Toshiba service center when it was reading audio intermittently and still accessing data CDs, but I had only 200 MB of free space on the hard drive then. They told me the problem was due to insufficient free space in the hard drive. Recently I installed a stick-memory driver for the USB port. Could that driver be interfering with access to floppies and CDs? On the "Setup" screen (in DOS prior to Windows bootup) there is no mention of installation of the FDD (floppy disk drive) or the CDROM drive, except for mention of the boot order of CDROM--FDD--Hard disk. |
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Can't fully access (a:) and (d:) drives and master boot records.
From your description it seems most likely that both the floppy and CD drive
have about reached the end of their useful life, and are simply not working very well. It might be possible to improve performance by using the appropriate cleaning disk on each of them, but these are components that wear out, and sometimes they just have to be replaced. . -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Blohm" wrote in message ... I have a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS laptop that includes a floppy disk drive (a and a CDROM drive (d. (1) I cannot access these drives properly. The floppy disk drive can read some floppy disks and not others. Some disks it signals as not properly formatted, others it states it cannot access. The CDROM drive can access audio disks but the disks spin only very slowly and the playback gets interrupted the way buffering interrupts streaming audio. The CDROM drive cannot access data disks right now, although it used to if I could get the CD to spin at full speed. Accordingly, now when I boot the computer with the Windows 98 2nd edition disk in the drive, the CDROM drive does not spin the disk at high speed and fails to read the disk. When I put the Startup Diskette in the floppy drive there is no result. (2) Also Norton Antivirus cannot access the (c hard drive's master boot records when I run a virus scan. Otherwise, Windows 98 2nd edition is working properly. All external modems are working properly (PCMCIA card to access internet and dial-up modem). I'm worried about when it comes time to do an over-the-top reinstall of the operating system: no access to the floppydisk/CD drives. I have not "run" the SFC (system file checker). The last time I did, and corrected a couple of found errors, it caused me to have to do an over-the-top reinstall of Windows 98 2nd edition. There was not a problem with the floppydisk/CD drives then, which developed gradually and suddenly reached the current dire state. I have 700 MB of free memory on the 4 GB hard drive. A year ago I had the CDROM drive checked by a Toshiba service center when it was reading audio intermittently and still accessing data CDs, but I had only 200 MB of free space on the hard drive then. They told me the problem was due to insufficient free space in the hard drive. Recently I installed a stick-memory driver for the USB port. Could that driver be interfering with access to floppies and CDs? On the "Setup" screen (in DOS prior to Windows bootup) there is no mention of installation of the FDD (floppy disk drive) or the CDROM drive, except for mention of the boot order of CDROM--FDD--Hard disk. |
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