Re: [Thinkpad] Disappearing CD-RW

On Thursday 04 March 2004 11:08 am, Office wrote:
> As a committed TP owner I convinced a friend to purchase an
> "i series" ThinkPad two years ago with Win Me preinstalled. (P3 / 747 Mhz)
> It worked well up until his two daughters got hold of it and
> discovered the internet so he has asked me to "fix" it. As he doesn't have
> a FDD I have reinstalled the Me O/S from the recovery CDs. It took 3 tries
> but finally everything seemed to reinstall, including the CD-RW ROM.
> Mysteriously without any prompting or use, it disappeared. In the system
> tray Direct CD shows the red circle/slash over the CD icon. When I restart
> the machine the drive is no longer shown as drive "D". I have gone into
> C:\IBMTOOLS/DRIVERS/CDROM and clicked on "uinstall.exe". This installed the
> CD-ROM once as drive "D" and it could be seen in Win Explorer as such. Upon
> a restart it disappeared again and attempting "uinstall.exe" again gives
> the warning that IBMTPCD.SYS could not be copied.
> Magically, after removing the disk drives and hard disk
> controllers in Device Manager it reappears, stays around for a few restarts

I had a friend with this problem about a year ago with an ME system. He
simply could not get the CD-RW to stay around. He spent a lot of time
at it, and is an experienced Windows person. After having dragged me
into the mess, we eventally decided to install Windows 2000. It was one
of the more frustrating and bizarre events I have ever encountered with
Windows. I can only attribute this to some subtle problem with the
registry. I really think that WinME is the worst of the Windows versions.

If you do manage to find the magic to fix this, post it! ;-)

--STeve Andre'
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Received on Thu Mar 4 11:18:54 2004