first deep format ... chkdsk threw up errors for first time ... worried

Jaffa.

aliEnRIK wrote: »

(And formatting so regular is probably the cause!)

Formatted my test computer about 1,000 times + over 3 years. I can defo say Formatting does not do anything to the drive integrity.

I think you might have the slave plugged into the end cable and the master on the middle of the cable, the master needs to go on the end.

catalina66

Jaffa. wrote: »

Formatted my test computer about 1,000 times + over 3 years. I can defo say Formatting does not do anything to the drive integrity.

I think you might have the slave plugged into the end cable and the master on the middle of the cable, the master needs to go on the end.

Thanks Jaffa, and, yes, I put Hard Disk Inspector on, as was worried about the drive, what with the BSODs (dratted Kontiki!) and it reported drive as healthy, temperature fine, and I think 76% was in the 3 main results.

I moved the DVD-RAM drive (master) up to the top bay and put it on the end of the cable, and the CD-ROM drive (slave) on the middle of the cable ... it's driving me nutty that both drives are now recognised in the bios, as CD-drives, but neither will burn a CD!

Cheers, Cat :beer:

basmic

Try this.

Click Start > Run > Type regedit and click OK.

Regedit should now open. In the left hand side, click + next to the following names: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > Class > {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.

In the right hand side, click to highlight the UpperFilters key and delete it (Edit menu, or press Delete on your keyboard) - when prompted to confirm the deletion, select Yes. Now delete the LowerFilters key.

Restart the computer, and see if that helps.

If the above doesn't help, try this:

Go to the Start menu > Run > type devmgmt.msc, then click OK.

Click on the + next to DVD/CD-ROM drivesto expand it > go through all the CD/DVD drives, and right click them then select Uninstall - again, ok the confirmation.

Restart the computer and see what happens after that.

basmic

By the way, if the above doesn't work, I'd like to try one more last resort.

Boot the computer up into Windows. Do the last option in the post above - delete all the CD/DVD-ROM drives from Device Manager, but this time shutdown the computer as normal, immediately afterwards. No restarting to see if it worked.

With the computer turned off, disconnect the gray ribbon cable for the CD/DVD drives from the motherboard. By now, the drives ought to still have the ribbon and power cables connected up, but the ribbon cable for them won't be connected to the motherboard - leave the other drives as normal.

Now, with the ribbon cable disconnected still, turn the computer on. Re-detect all the drives in the BIOS - I know, what's the point, you might ask? Just hear me out. After confirming the two optical drives are disconnected, save settings and exit the BIOS then boot into Windows as normal.

Let Windows load up as normal, giving it the usual minute or two to settle. Now download and install RegSeeker (link).

Extract Regseeker to it's own folder, then run it. In the left hand side, click Clean the registry then click Ok - it will now start scanning, so give it a few minutes.

When it's finished, click the Select button on the bottom and choose Select all - then click the Action buttion and choose Delete selected items. Click Ok to confirm, and click ok again to save a backup - after a few seconds, all the registry errors will count down.

Close down Regseeker, and shutdown Windows as normal. With the machine turned off, reconnect the gray ribbon cable for the CD/DVD drives, and boot back into Windows after redetecting the drives in the BIOS.

I really hope one of these suggestions work.

catalina66

Thanks so much, basmic. You're a star! Will do as you've advised and post back later.

Many thanks, Cat :beer:

catalina66

Hi basmic

Thanks so much again for such great help. I've done everything ... hadn't been able to delete upper/lower filters in that place, but searched registry and they were at HKey Local Machine, System, ControlSet001, Control, IDE. Wasn't allowed to delete them. Uninstalled the drives, removed cable. Did regseeker, shut down, reconnected cable. Missed pressing the key quick enough!, so straight into Windows.

Still the same, and last test was to see if CD burned in ImgBurn ... not registering CD-drive etc, so I looked up the error message and ended up at a page that said about changing volume values of drives to 1 or 2. Messed about with that, no change. Also on that little journey, saw about checking if CD recording is enabled ... R-clicked on My Computer and made sure of that. Just done another Imgburn test, but still no joy ... I/O error; failed to read sector; logical block address out of range. Interpretation: check condition. [this was me trying to burn onto a CD while it's in the DVD-RAM drive, as the CD-drive burning test just didn't even register the drive].

Am I right in thinking that otherwise it looks like the CD-drive's ability to burn has failed, as has the DVD-RAM's drive? Both read CD's, and the DVD-RAM one thankfully reads and burns data and dvd's.

Am seriously considering an external HD to just back stuff up on and do a normal format when and if it's needed. Then there wouldn't be a need for replacing the CD-drive; spend on external HD instead. I never make audio CD's; it was just the image of the partition that had been a good idea, but maybe the external HD will be a really good outcome from all this investigation and help! As it will save money on disks as well as be really convenient! And I could just do any necessary format manually, then copy an acronis image over from the external HD?

Only other thing I can think is that there's a conflict between the HP 1040d DVD-RAM drive, and Dell's TSSTcorpCDRWDVD TS-H492C CD-drive, as the rest of the pc isn't failing, but the Dell CD drive appears to have partly?

And just thought to look at the PC manual (for other stuff) but noticed the only stuff it says that refers to the CD-drive issue is a second drive needs to be set on Cable Select. But ti doesn't make it clear which drive!

Best regards, Cat :beer: