I recently ran scanreg /restore and scanreg /fix (last night) and today my Floppy drive A:\ and D:\ won't work. I looked them up in help and it said they were working properly. However I beg to differ because when I put a CD in D:\ it says: D:\ is not accesable. The device is not ready.

How can I ready this device so that it works when I put a CD in?
One of these may help:
1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or...
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Restart computer.
or...
3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept registry merge.
Restart computer.
or...
4. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.Hi broni,
None of that worked. I guess I should have mentioned i'm running the old cave man 98se! That might make a differance?Fix #2 doesn't apply to 98.
I'm not sure about #4. I'd have to fire up my 98.

Why did you run scanreg in the first place?I don’t KNOW! BASICALLY because I’m a moron! My computer skills are very LIMITED! Say it with me! LIM-IT-ED! I have to depend on others for help when I have a problem. I may be the roughest, TOUGHEST, meanest son of a bi*ch this side of the Mississippi! Well, at least when my wife lets me! LOL But I don’t know squat about computers! This is just one of THREE such boards I now am a member of.

On another board I had someone helping me try and figure out how to turn my files backs into what they needed to be to open with. They some how were changed to open in registry and that only works for registry files. To make things more complicated I don’t have the original installation CD. They figured it out and fixed my problem. Those scanreg things were just some things they suggested we might use but never did. I thought what could it hurt and ran them anyway! Mistake! Those ideas you suggested might have worked. I posted the same question on another board and a guy answered and said sometimes dust can make it not be able to read so I wiped the cd on my shirt then blew into the computer for good measure and bingo, it worked!

Thank you for trying to help! One of you fixed it!

P.S. That scan stopped on 83% and said: Windows found an error in your system files and was unable to fix the problem. Try deleting some files to free up disk space on your windows drive. If that doesn't work then you will need to install windows to a new directory.

You wouldn't by any chance know how to do that would you?
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so I wiped the cd on my shirt then blew into the computer for good measure and bingo, it worked!