yibbleyab Posted August 26, 2005 CID Share Posted August 26, 2005 For the last week for so I've been having problems when I try to get into the properites of my CD and/or my DVD drive (2 seperate drives) Every time I highlight one of the drives and go to file, I get a Dr Watson error followed by a Windows error. My system then freezes until I open my task manager and end process on the 2 drwatson.exe's that running. Usually this takes me back to my desktop and closes any toolbars I have open (like my quicklaunch). Same routine if I try to right-click on either of them. For what its worth this also happens on my a: as well but I'm really not that concerned with that drive since it also reads. My device manager says they're both working fine and they both read nicely although my writing ability has dropped about 50%. So I guess in a way ONE good thing has happened...I now have about 20 new COASTERS!!! I already run Norton sys.works 05, Adaware, and Spysweeper so I dont think its a vrus/worm, and I havent installed any new programs. ANY suggestions would be VERY appreciated Win XP Pro (real version not downloaded) amd 2600xp 1.9G processor 768M RAM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MYRIAGON Posted August 26, 2005 CID Share Posted August 26, 2005 Try going to device manager and go to view and check show hidden devices then see if there are duplicates of the same drive(s), if so, uninstall all of the CD drives showing and the Floppy drive also if it's showing dupe's , restart PC and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yibbleyab Posted August 27, 2005 Author CID Share Posted August 27, 2005 already checked the Device manager and theres no Dupe's. And I dont know how many times I restarted this thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helloimtim Posted August 27, 2005 CID Share Posted August 27, 2005 If you have tried to uninstall both drives in the hardware manager and rebooting and that still did not help I would try this. If you have the install disks for the drives try to reinstall the drivers. If not look on the net and see if you can find there drivers. Also go to windows update and see if that may help by giving you new drivers. Another idea would be this. Try to do a repair of windows. You can do this by putting in the CD of your operating system reboot and do a repair of the operating system. What operating system do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yibbleyab Posted August 28, 2005 Author CID Share Posted August 28, 2005 yeah Tim I already tried to re-install the drivers but unfortunatly I dont have a windows Xp pro disk. I got the computer with the OS already on here and I dont trust downloading the OS ( wether torrent or other p2p sharing) since my uncle lost all his information due to a bad copy. Since it is everytime I try to go to My Comp and highlight either my CD or DVD drives and hit file ( or try to right click on them for properties) do you think I could get away with a windows repair? and if so do I need the same disc that was used on this comp or can I use any copy to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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