Data cd recognized as audio cd!

2002-11-16 11:39:28

Hi! Here's the problem:
When a friend of mine tries to burn a data disc, Windows recognises it as an audio cd with just Track01.cda. The weird is that the data cds he burns, play perfectly well in all the others computers except his! This is happening for some time now and it started happening all of a sudden. He can use all his old data cds, but not the new ones he creates! He has Windows 98 and Nero 5.5.9.17. I also saw that his Creative cd-rom is primary-slave  and his Yamaha cd-r is secondary master. Also, some times, when he inserts the data cd in the cd-rom, it just freezes the computer because it can't recognise it, without the eject working.
Any thoughts? Re-install Windows, change cd-rom from primary slave to secondary slave, change burning software maybe?

Data cd recognized as audio cd!

Reply #1 – 2002-11-16 14:06:51

I once had a similar problem. My computer would only recognize track 1 of audio CDs.
It came from the IDE drivers. I never managed the CD ROM drive to work properly on the primary IDE channel. I had to let it on the second one.

Data cd recognized as audio cd!

Reply #2 – 2002-11-16 17:35:19

Some links about the same problem, maybe there's a solution:

http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboar...orum/42420.html

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/ar...es/267/5/86.ASP

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If your friend hasn't applied Windows Updates he should because in one of the updates (don't know which one, sorry) it updates "IOS.SYS, or IOS.VXD" in Win98 which has some reference to CD-ROM's:
http://www.windowsupdate.com/