Drive Access Failure

[malcontent]

I have a strange problem with CD drives under XP which has come and gone for a while now. Whenever I have 2 cd drives in my computer, my DVD ROM (pioneer slot loading, can't remember model number) there are access problems, applications can't be run from the drive (installers, autoloaders) and apps requireing the drive fail. Does anyone know what this (vague) problem is?

[VIPER_1069]

check the jumpers on the back of both rom drives and make sure they are not both set to the same settings of master as this can cause major headaches

[scarecrow]

... or your antivirus settings- it's likely that the on access scanner wants to scrutinize the CD contents before allowing you to use them.

[malcontent]

I've managed to fix it now, it seemed to be a bad IDE cable of all things

[VIPER_1069]

I've managed to fix it now, it seemed to be a bad IDE cable of all things

nice one thanks for the update

not always an obvious thing to check but quite easy to fix

[jasmin]

I got strange problem with my CD/DVD burners too. Very often I can not refresh contents, you know - I browse one CD/DVD and when I try to browse another one I got contents of previous one, no chance to refresh it with F5 or with "Refresh" command, till I restart my PC. Any idea? THX

[Duracell]

try to enable AIN: http://www.dvdrbase.com/showthread.php?p=204660
if it doesn't help, the problem will be filter driver related; then try this: http://www.nero.com/en/Driver_Clean_...ryChecker.html

Greetings from
Duracell

[jasmin]

Am I wrong? I'm not speaking about Autorun, I've disabled it cause I don't like it. You think that disabled autorun can make me problems with refreshing contents?

[scarecrow]

Am I wrong? I'm not speaking about Autorun, I've disabled it cause I don't like it. You think that disabled autorun can make me problems with refreshing contents?

Definitely yes, if you have the XP burning engine or any other packet writer active. Or the opposite of that, if you use e.g. vmware. It simply depends on the software you have installed. BTW I also prefer AIN turned off.

[jasmin]

XP burning engine died a long ago at my PC (as soon as I installed XP), no packet writers anymore (used DirectCD but uninstalled it long ago too). Everything was OK till that starts, few weeks ago. And I have not installed any new burning app since last summer I think

[Duracell]

Now did you tried AIN? check the filter entries too and post the values here;

the filters are listed there:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Cl ass\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
"LowerFilters"=
"UpperFilters"=

[jasmin]

Here are filters you asked for, Duracell. Something wrong? 2 times PXHelp20 and that GearAspi

[scarecrow]

Do you still use Roxio software? (cdralw2k). It does need AIN turned on, most of the times.
Plus entries from Pxhelper, Padus, Clone CD/DVD, Gear... all of them together may be too much.

[Master]

If you don´t find a gear application then search for Powerquest Driveimage.

Driveimage 7 (maybe other versions too) installs the gearaspi and the gear burning engine.

And i would uninstall CD-Cremator/WinOnCD

[jasmin]

@ Master

Never got Powerquest Driveimage installed and long time ago I installed only DirectCD & SoundStream from ECDC package, uninstalled it 2 years ago.