I have another problem

To explain a little, last night my hard drive somewhat went mental, and to cut a long story short, I had to install windows vista on my pc (which was provided on my back up disc), as Windows XP (which it was running before) appears to be non existent on my PC now (yet everything else still remains on my hard drive). Now with Windows Vista newly installed Windows Media player and Media centre will not read any Audio CD's, they will play the first 20 seconds of of the first song on the CD and then it will just skip the rest telling me that the disc is either damaged or dirty and to activate "use error correction" and try again. Well that makes no difference, so I figured I'd download a free player, so I download Winamp, hoping it's a problem isolated to the Windows provided players. Well in Winamp, it just skips right through the CD, straight to the end and won't play a damn thing. Google search is giving me fucking nothing.

PLEASE HELP

Is my CD drive fucked? It's a DVD drive also, and appears to play DVD's fine in Windows Media player.

dunno, maybe you need to download the right driver for your optical drive?

That is pretty damn weird. Tracks on the hard drive play fine?

^ probably the problem. (to what nene said)

  On 7/23/2010 at 8:16 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

dunno, maybe you need to download the right driver for your optical drive?

Not sure how I find that out? I've had the driver and utilities disc out, trying to unzip the drivers for vista 32bit, everytime I try and unzip a file, it tells me the disc isn't present, which it is. Plus everything seems to be working fine except reading damn audio cd's, fucking thing

  On 7/23/2010 at 8:22 AM, Rabid said:

That is pretty damn weird. Tracks on the hard drive play fine?

Yup.

man you can still download exact audio copy (EAC) and see if it can rip your CDs. Also try grabbing the drivers from another computer and put them on usb stick, or try to find them on the net.

  On 7/23/2010 at 9:40 AM, Babar said:

man you can still download exact audio copy (EAC) and see if it can rip your CDs.

I FUCKING LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH

cums

It might just be a drm problem.

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=260646&messageID=2475590&tag=content;leftCol

  On 7/23/2010 at 10:36 AM, Babar said:

cums

It might just be a drm problem.

 

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=260646&messageID=2475590&tag=content;leftCol

Already tested that one, it still didn't work, thanks though dude :).