[help!]Bought a new CD/DVD player, not loading files.

I recently had a cd/dvd player take a shit on me, so I bought a new drive. I popped out my old one, hooked up the IDE cable and power line to the new drive and turned my comp on.

It's not loading anything from the drive. It reads that there is information on discs in the drive, but it will not load anything. When I attempt to load something it says "Invalid Win32 file." or something like that.

I changed it from primary to slave. Still nothing. I went and returned my new drive and got a new one, the problem still persists. Some discs it is unable to find anything at all. It will say it's a blank disc when I knew there is shit on there.

Any suggestions? A guy at Fry's said to dl some Win32 files or something but I don't think he knows what he's talking about. If you have any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

Try replacing the invalid (probably corrupt) Win32 files?

Failing that, you can try and do a repair to the windows install.

And failing that, you can buy a new mobo or go for a SATA drive

The guy at Fry's is a fucktard.


Before you dick around with anything, I need to know the following:


1. Is this drive IDE or SATA?

2. Is this drive's cable sharing itself with any other drives, or does your IDE ribbon/SATA cable run directly from the mainboard to the drive?

3. What OS are you running?

im on XP

yeah, i knew that guy was a fucking idiot but i just humored him.

im going to look at the IDE ribbon right now to see if it's connected to anything else before the DVD drive. would that even make a difference? would it change anything if i swapped it ?


the IDE cable is hooked up to nothing but the drive and the mobo

Try replacing the invalid (probably corrupt) Win32 files?

Failing that, you can try and do a repair to the windows install.

And failing that, you can buy a new mobo or go for a SATA drive

there are no invalid win32 files. i explained that. it read the files and then gave a message when i tried to open said files that said "invalid win32 file".

Eggo, PM me if you want me to take a look at this, there's a number of things I'd need to see before I could make an assessment of the situation, just PM me if you want me to help.

woot, it was the ide cable :p