I have recently been experiencing problems accessing data through my computer for any CD/DVDS or USB sticks that I insert into my computer.
Whenever I put a CD or DVD in the autoplay does not work. I have gone onto the properties for the CD drive through my computer and there is no option for auto play. If i go in to media player, i can access the music through there. However, if entering a software CD there is no way that I can access the data. Whenever the CD is in and playing through media player, if i double click the drive the disk is in it asks me to enter a disk into the drive.
Whenever, i have put in a USB stick, it is asking me to format the drive. The USB stick works on other computers and when attempting to format the drive anyway, it fails.
I have completed the following tasks on command prompt:
Enter diskpart in the command prompt window.
Insert a software CD (such as a game or business software) into the drive and wait until the light on the front of the drive stops blinking..
Enter list volume at the command prompt.
On doing the aboe it does show that there is data in he CD drive, so it recognies it from there.
However, whenever I do the method 1 from the following link, the reply i get is that it is an invalid drive specification.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321641
This leads me to believe I am having drive problems.
could somebody help with this i.e. why can’t i access the data through “my computer” and how can i remedy this?
thank you
