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CDRom Problems w/ Windows95

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by ffbb Jun 16, 2001 last reply Sep 14, 2001

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I have a PC with Windows 95. I have tried to install 3 CDRoms. Dos and Windows recognized all 3. When you go to My Computer & Systems you will see it there. If you go to My Computer you see the CDRom Icon. The CDRom will also eject a CD withoutproblems and will also play CD with music. Problem: It will not install off a CD data. You cannot go and look and see what is on a CD such as data. Is there a setting I am needing to change or reset? or other suggestions would be helpful. (I can't believe 3 CDRoms would be malfunctioning)

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by sanderson Jun 16, 2001

I once had the same problem with an older Pentium computer that did not have a multi-read CD drive; but only when trying to read a CD-R. I was able to get mine to work by disabling the read ahead optimization for the CD..

by ffbb Sep 14, 2001

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by churger Jun 16, 2001

1st: Go to system properties, device manager, find your CDrom and uncheck the boxes with disconnecting and DMA

2nd: It can be IDE port problem. You should update motherboard drivers, or vice versa get back to older ones (in the case it started malfunctioning after you already updated them)