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Program CD shows as an Audio CD

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by edudley

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I have a Program Cd that when used on one pc (Win95) it shows as an Audio Cd and won't install.
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Edie Dudley

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by bapster

Make sure you have the latest CD ROM drivers for your cd rom drive. ALso, if you are using REALMODE DOS drivers this may cause this problems. You may also try a different IDE cable.

Go to your system performance and see if you have any REAL-MODE IDE drivers. If so, remove any reference to your CD ROM in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Good Luck!

Bapster

by bchesmer

Follow what "Babster" (Post#1) says & try another pgm CD on the suspect CD-ROM, if it comes up the same (Only seen as an audio CD) then I would say you have a defective drive.

by kishorebkvr

Dear friend,
Most probably u check for virus scan to your system it may be a virus in your system thats showing data cd as audio cd , if its not confirmed then go to the dos mode and check the drive there or else go throught the autoexec.bat file .
hope everything is fine..

by akhil_kakar

Dear friend
I think the problem in your case is probably your cd-rom drive or your cd. Those cd's which have been used for a long time wears out and the cd -drive is unable to read the format of cd. It assumes it to be an audio cd. Well I can say this with confidence as this has happenned to me twice. I bought a new program cd and the problem was solved. Also if there is a lot of dirt in the drive or on the cd then same problem arises. So you could clean it with solutions(cd-rom drive)and try your luck.I hope this solves your problem.
Regards
AK

by xtera

This occurs mostly when combinig old CD-ROM drives with CDs that have been burned or copied. Replacing the CD-ROM to something recent 52X should solve your problem.

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