Cd will not read windows xp

I have no third-party burning programs installed, only windows default burner. EXE SP2 needed.. Take a look here before you do anything else and see if any of these KB articles are relevant Sorry - brain not in gear this evening As the CD drive will not read at present SFC is out of the question and the workarounds involve copying the i folder to the hard drive. Which also raises the point, of course, that although uninstalling SP2 is straightforward enough reinstallation poses a problem if you have SP2 on CD.

Then registry editing required to specify windows patch to this files. How then to restore changed reg setting back to original patch? Then I want reinstall SP2 I have it on my harddrive. Not clear, could this reinstalling procedure cause any problems? Before editing a string export the string - it will save as a. Right-Clcik "Mycomputer". Select Properties. Select Hardware Tab.

Click "Device Manager" button. Right-Click each component and select uninstall Perform steps 9 for all the components under this category. Restart the computer. Have you installed any new software?

There is software that can rename, take over or hide your drives. Do you back up regularly? Ok enough of the mom stuff, if your BIOS and if your device manager can see the drive then it is ether being used by a program or disabled for your profile. Go to control panel and user accounts, create a new account. Give it every thing and create a password this is only for testing, you can delete it after you are done. Tell it to use the welcome screen so that you pick the user.

Then click ok and reboot so the changes will take effect. Log on as the new user to see if see the drives if not then it is not your profile if it does then you need to save your profile settings and delete it. Reboot and log in to recreate your profile and add your settings back to your profile. Sorry if I am telling you more then needed or not enough.

Let me know and I can be more helpful in my description of what to do. Next Haha I bet you thought the last things I told you to do were bad. It's also possible that the drive is bad and needs to be replaced. For additional information on Device Manager, see our Device Manager page. If you attempted the recommendations above, boot from the Windows disc to see if the computer can detect and boot from the disc. If the computer can boot from the disc, you are encountering a Windows driver related issue.

Try the above recommendations again. Additional information on bootable disks is on our boot disk page.