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Thread ID: 61619	2005-09-11 06:07:00	Win 98 PC sees CD, XP PC doesn't. Why?	Oggy (5399)	Press F1

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387465	2005-09-11 06:07:00	Bought some 'Cross-Stitch' software for my wife to use. Tried to install it on my new XP machine via the DVD drive but the PC was unable to see the disk. Didn't auto-run so I selected 'run' but just got a message 'Insert CD in drive'. Had a look at the drive thru Win Explorer and it didn't see the disk there either. (I inserted a couple of other disks in the drive and the PC detected them no trouble.) I then threw the CD in the old Win98 machine and it loaded up fine. What would cause a new PC not to detect a disk that an old PC can see? In something that may be related ... from time to time the DVD drive seems to go to sleep and won't eject. It seems to happen when a game has been played a few hours earlier and the PC has not been used for a while. Any ideas?	Oggy (5399)
387466	2005-09-11 07:16:00	Use OSX... Problem solved.	Bisdale (7228)
387467	2005-09-11 07:53:00	.. from time to time the DVD drive seems to go to sleep and won't eject. It seems to happen when a game has been played a few hours earlier and the PC has not been used for a while. Any ideas? Power management - turn it off.	pctek (84)
387468	2005-09-11 07:54:00	How old is the disk? Does it say it can actually run on XP?	Greg (193)
387469	2005-09-11 08:27:00	How old is the disk? Does it say it can actually run on XP? Don't know how old the software is but I bought the disk yesterday. It does say it will work with everything from 98 to XP	Oggy (5399)
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