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Weird CD reading problem
I'm trying to revive an old Pentium system running win95 as a computer used
strictly for word processing and nothing else. I have a copy of Office 97 Pro on CD but am having a problem installing it. When I put the CD into the drive, the drive cannot recognise the CD. It just gives me an error stating "Drive failed. Abort, Retry, Cancel?". I have swapped the drive for another that I had on another win98 machine and still the same problem. Then I checked the CD on a winXP system and it read perfectly fine. I formatted the harddrive and started over with the updated drivers for both cd-roms, same problem. So the logical conclusion is that both drives that I tried it on are defective right? Wrong, I tried other Cd's ... music, data, games and they all read and executed perfectly. Does anyone have any ideas on why it wont let me read this one CD that I need. It's kinda ironic how the life of the machine depends on this one CD to work but it wont |
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I'm trying to revive an old Pentium system running win95 as a computer
used strictly for word processing and nothing else. I have a copy of Office 97 Pro on CD but am having a problem installing it. When I put the CD into the drive, the drive cannot recognise the CD. It just gives me an error stating "Drive failed. Abort, Retry, Cancel?". I have swapped the drive for another that I had on another win98 machine and still the same problem. Then I checked the CD on a winXP system and it read perfectly fine. I formatted the harddrive and started over with the updated drivers for both cd-roms, same problem. So the logical conclusion is that both drives that I tried it on are defective right? Wrong, I tried other Cd's ... music, data, games and they all read and executed perfectly. Does anyone have any ideas on why it wont let me read this one CD that I need. It's kinda ironic how the life of the machine depends on this one CD to work but it wont Some drives (especially the older 8x or older) drives will not read some cd's that have been copied. Has to do with the color of the disc and the laser from what I have been told. |
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