Hello, I have Windows ME and XP SP2 on C:\ and D:\ respectively. I have Sony CD-R/RW drive (model: CRX220E1) as master in the secondary IDE. The OS (both ME and XP) hangs while booting with CD RW plugged in. It never completes booting. But it works fine when I remove the CD RW. I will boot XP by removing CD RW and once it completes booting, I will hibernate the system and turn off. Now I plugin CD RW and switch ON the system, resumes windows XP and it will work fine. Once inside XP, it detects the CD RW and will work fine even if I choose re-start the system without removing the CD RW. This is how I managed to work for a month. But today, the system failed booting as before and I removed the CD RW and hibernated. XP resumes fine on Switch ON with CD RW and detects it. But when I try to access the CD RW, the system hangs and when I re-start it hangs as before while booting. I replaced my CD RW with some other drive (DVD/ my friend's SONY RW) and everything goes fine without a hitch. I like to figure out what is causing the problem and what is the solution. Any help from you would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot for your valuable time.
Thanks ninja for ur reply. I like to know some technical details about the problem. Any guess on what should that?
