Mine works just fine. I go to my computer and see all the options under “Devices with removable storage.” But when I go into My Computer on my mom’s pc, there is nothing listed, even though there is a CD-rom player. The CDR light goes on upon inserting a CD. Then does the computer light, so the hardware is communicating.
I am stumped. This should be an easy task (BTW, on WIN98, when putting a cd in it automatically appeared on the screen, yet it does not even on mine). I have a giant XP book that I will start reading. until then, give me options, please.
Also, whenever I try to save a picture, it always, always, tries to save it as a bitmap. How do I fix that?
No help, but I figured I’d throw my own question in here: I have an iso image that I want to burn to a CD using the XP CD burner. I can burn the .iso file but it doesn’t “unpack” the files.
About the images being saved as .BMP, I presume you mean from Internet Explorer? If so, try clearing your cache (Tools -> Internet Options -> Delete Files). I have no idea why image format is tied into the temporary files, but that process usually fixes it for me.
And about the CD issue, I don’t know but here are a few WAGs and things you can examine:
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[li]Did you check the drive’s status in Device Manager? Is it even there? If it’s there but there’s a driver problem, see if you can get Windows to auto-detect the drive again or set it to a generic drive.[/li][li]Did you check your BIOS settings? Maybe the IDE/SCSI settings are messed up.[/li][li]Did you check the internal cable connections? Maybe the cables aren’t connected all the way, causing the lights to function but nothing else.[/li][/ul]