CD-Rom Drive Problems

i just finished building a friends computer but the cd drive won't recognise some cd's. It is a Samsung 52 x CDROM Drive Oem. Most cd's worked fine but on 2 driver discs it said the data was corrupted or an unknown format and wouldn't access them.

I just tried them on my pc and they work fine. The pc is running win xp pro.

 

You could try a different IDE cable.

 

Nope its the crappy samsung, it spins too fast, try using nero speed i think its called to slow down the cd.

 

okay cheers, where can i get nero speed from?

 

AFAIK drivespeed is only availiable with nero burning rom. i have the excat same drive but don't have ne problems with it, infact i think its great, fast, queit and cheap!

tom

 

nope its free if i remember correctly try here for it http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=download.html and you want drivespeed.

 

i got that cdrom and havent had any problems with it...

i found it to be less of a problem then the equivilant LG drive which does spin the cd up too much....

 

i will try it when i next go round his house. Cheers for the help.