First post, by beachboy1122
Hi. There has been an Operating System bug in Windows 9x for as long as I can remember. Please give me as much information and help as you can so that I can concur this issue once and for all. When I insert a CD-R (burnt on Windows 7 in ISO 9660 v2) into the HP Vectra Desktop running Windows ME, the IDE CD-ROM Drive, the motor and laser gradually spin… slow then fast… then rest… attempting to read it three times, and lastly the drive stops spinning altogether while the green LED status light goes dark. What bothers me the most of all is that any other industrial disc such as audio discs and application discs are read and loaded right away, but my CD-Rs won’t. There was two days when I was using 20 burnt discs just fine and was being read by Win ME but now this. I remember this since I was a child that the drive will spin and get tired accepting CD-Rs without any explanation. It was working last night but what happened was, I pressed a key to skip a game intro and it froze so there could be a corrupted CD-ROM driver file. Read on for the prior actions. Please consider the fixes I have tried already.
A. I’m burning the CD-R on Win7 in the compatible format for Win98 which is ISO 9660 v2 (no joliet extension) while also burning it via Disc-at-once. I’ve tried DAO, TAO, & SAO and it still doesn’t work.
B. Burning it slowest at 10X and it still doesn’t work.
C. A game previously crashed during intro because I hit a keyboard key.
D. The CD-ROM Drivers are from HP and are updated already.
E. Blowing into the crevices doesn’t help.
F. I increased the VDisc Cache Size already.
G. DMA-mode is on and is supported by the CD-ROM Drive.
H. System Restore didn’t help.
