Can't Run NR2003! - Strange CD Problem

Just popped in my NR2003 CD to do a little racin' and it says it can't find the CD. After much investigation it seems that any CD I try to run shows up as an audio CD. Whenever I go to Control Panel and try to explore any CD in my drive all the files show up as audio files. I've never seen anything like this. If anyone has any ideas on this I would sure appreciate the help. Thank You David Stamper

Check and see if you've set any strange File Associations... -Larry "David Stamper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:emg0b.9530$uh6.694@lakeread05... > > Just popped in my NR2003 CD to do a little racin' and it says it can'tfind > the CD. After much investigation it seems that any CD I try to run showsup > as an audio CD. Whenever I go to Control Panel and try to explore any CDin

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> my drive all the files show up as audio files. I've never seen anything > like this. If anyone has any ideas on this I would sure appreciate the > help. > > Thank You > > David Stamper > > >

What OS are you running? I've seen this before and I think it was once a weird file association issue like has been mentioned. The other time some of my CDROM's drivers had been borked and were in need of a reinstall/update. It could depend on several things like which OS it is you're using, what type of drive it is (ATAPI, SCSI, etc) and maybe even have a tie-in to DirectX issues. "David Stamper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:emg0b.9530$uh6.694@lakeread05... > > Just popped in my NR2003 CD to do a little racin' and it says it can'tfind > the CD. After much investigation it seems that any CD I try to run showsup > as an audio CD. Whenever I go to Control Panel and try to explore any CDin

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> my drive all the files show up as audio files. I've never seen anything > like this. If anyone has any ideas on this I would sure appreciate the > help. > > Thank You > > David Stamper > > >

Could try uninstalling the CD drive completely from Device Manager then letting windows redetect it again. Might clear the problem On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:16:42 GMT, "SimRacer" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>What OS are you running? > >I've seen this before and I think it was once a weird file association issue >like has been mentioned. The other time some of my CDROM's drivers had been >borked and were in need of a reinstall/update. > >It could depend on several things like which OS it is you're using, what >type of drive it is (ATAPI, SCSI, etc) and maybe even have a tie-in to >DirectX issues. > > >"David Stamper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:emg0b.9530$uh6.694@lakeread05... >> >> Just popped in my NR2003 CD to do a little racin' and it says it can't >find >> the CD. After much investigation it seems that any CD I try to run shows >up >> as an audio CD. Whenever I go to Control Panel and try to explore any CD >in >> my drive all the files show up as audio files. I've never seen anything >> like this. If anyone has any ideas on this I would sure appreciate the >> help. >> >> Thank You >> >> David Stamper >> >> >> >

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Have you recently installed a new CDR drive? Have you recently installed any CD cloning software like NERO, blindwrite, daemon333, etc.? It could be that some software you have recently installed has copied a .VXD file into your windows install in error. For example, WinME contains such files in c:\windows\system\iosubsys. If you have WinME you could look there for a recent file that might be causing the problem. Best wishes! "David Stamper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:emg0b.9530$uh6.694@lakeread05... > > Just popped in my NR2003 CD to do a little racin' and it says it can'tfind > the CD. After much investigation it seems that any CD I try to run showsup > as an audio CD. Whenever I go to Control Panel and try to explore any CDin

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> my drive all the files show up as audio files. I've never seen anything > like this. If anyone has any ideas on this I would sure appreciate the > help. > > Thank You > > David Stamper > > >

"EGK" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Could try uninstalling the CD drive completely from Device Manager then > letting windows redetect it again. Might clear the problem > > I agree. This is how I found some bad or corrupt drivers the one time that was the problem. I removed the drive through the device manager and rebooted. Got driver file errors on restart. Reinstalled the latest drivers I had and all was well again. Sometimes the fix can be that easy. Other times, well, things stay broke until a Windoze reinstall happens or a big Windoze update comes out.