device is not ready

Hi

I have a QSI CDRW/DVD player. When I put a dvd or cd into the drive,
it spins, the yellow light comes on. In XP's my computer screen it
does not recognize any files on the disks. When I go to a command
prompt, it says the device is not ready. However, XP's device manager
reports that it is enabled and all is well. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the driver software. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

doug

On 10 Apr 2005 15:25:49 -0700, "irish" <irish4boy RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

 >Hi
 >
 >I have a QSI CDRW/DVD player. When I put a dvd or cd into the drive,
 >it spins, the yellow light comes on. In XP's my computer screen it
 >does not recognize any files on the disks. When I go to a command
 >prompt, it says the device is not ready. However, XP's device manager
 >reports that it is enabled and all is well. I have uninstalled and
 >reinstalled the driver software. Any other ideas?
 >
 >Thanks,
 >
 >doug

I've got a combo DVD/CDRW drive made by Liteon and it failed in the
first month, wouldn't read DVD's but still burned cdr's ok and read
cd's fine. Got a replacement and it has been ok for the most part
except a few times the drive has become locked and inacessable for
some unknown reason. In future I would stay away from these combo
drives as they seem flaky. IMO, your drive is knackered and I would
just replace it with a DVD-RW drive. BTW, in XP you shouldn't have to
install drivers for these drives as it has it's own drivers for these
devices already, all you need to install is the burning software and
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