#46 Physical CD drive not detected

[Anonymous]

I've a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with only standard
hardware installed/attached. Specifically, the CD
drive is a standard combo drive as a CD-RW and DVD
player. It's device name is "HLDS GCC-4240N 24x Slim
Combo". The drive works flawlessly for all DVD
reading/playing, CD reading and writing. Audio CD's
are routinely played via winamp. Currently listening
to Rush - Grace Under Pressure!

I have owned the laptop for well over a year now.
About 10-11 months ago, I had installed the "0.23"
version and it worked extremely well. I was always
satisfied with what had been produced. Approximately
45 days ago, my hard drive noisily crashed. Dell
replaced it free of cost (good for Dell Warrenty
support!) and reinstalled my XP Pro OS, and all my
software, though I'd not installed CD-DA Xtractor until
just a day or two ago. And this time I'd installed
version "0.24" after finding it had been updated.

Currently the program will start, but cannot find nor
display the CD drive to rip tracks from.... even though
winamp will promptly play the inserted CD.
Troubleshooting and trial and fiddling has not produced
a solution that works. Uninstalling "0.24" and
installing "0.23" did not improve things. Attempting
installation with "0.24" again did no good. What I'm
not going to do is rebuild from scratch again and use
0.23. HELP!!!

Perplexingly, I routinely use VM-Ware (version 4.0.5)
and decided on a whim to try installing the program in
a virtual XP machine. It worked correctly in every
use. In my native host it would not. It also worked
in a virtual Win98 machine. Now these virtual machines
are executed on the same physical hardware described above.

You've kinda got me at a standstill, with a large
number of CD's to rip, and no decent product to use
natively.

My personal email address for further contact is
"Joe_Wulf@yahoo.com" and would welcome further
communication regarding this. I'd even be willing to
beta-test a new version for you!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I have this problem as well. I am using a custom built
machine and an older CD-ROM (it was free). It is a typical XP
Pro + Intel board setup, using an Iomega drive.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I too am experiencing this problem. All my other programs
see my external firewire DVD/CD Writer drive just fine but
not CD-DA X-Tractor. There is nothing listed in the drive
drop down for CD drive.

Running on an updated Windows XP Pro machine.

[Eduardo]

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Hi there. You can download WNASPI32.DLL from http://www.nero.com/nero6/eng/WNASPI32.DLL.html and place it under the directory where the "CD-DA X-Tractor" are located. In my installation, they are under C:\Program Files\CD-DA X-Tractor\ Once you put that dll in there, you can relaunch the application and it will be able to recognize your drive(s).