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Old September 30th, 2003, 08:31 AM
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Question cdrom drive problem
cdrom keeps on dispalying: cdrom drive is locked by a disc utility... macromedia flash for win98 se... cdrom can't currently read cd's... any solutions?
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What did you do before this error started? When does the message display? What kind of cd-rom?
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Do you have DirectCD or some other similar type of software installed?

Generally, those programs will lock up the cdrom drive so it can be used only to burn cd's.
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i just popped in a cd and it won't read at all... i tried other cd's but still the same result... what do you mean "what kind of cd-rom"? hmmm laptop cd-rom if that's what you mean hrhr
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nope i don't have any programs like DirectCD installed in the machine
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I assume you've tried shutting down and rebooting the computer. What are you doing with flash? Have you installed the flash command line tools by chance?
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It could also be that the cdrom drive has gone bad. That happens quite frequently. Although the error message is generally "Cannot Read from Drive D:....."

I read your first post, but that doesn't sound like the exact error message you are getting. Can you post the exact message?
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go to the device manager, uninstall/remove the drive reboot, let it reinstall, see if it still happens
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