Cannot Access Data Disk in CD Drive When CD Player is Running

ID: Q162768


The information in this article applies to:


SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to access a data CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive while CD Player is running, you may receive one of the following error messages:

<driver letter>:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect.
The system cannot find the drive specified.
The device is not ready.


CAUSE

CD Player opens all available CD-ROM Drives in exclusive mode.


RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, use one of the following methods:


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows NT. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.


MORE INFORMATION

You may also experience this behavior if you have only one CD-ROM drive and Media Player is running.

Additional query words: 4.00


Keywords          : kbnetwork nt32ap NTSrvWkst 
Version           : 4.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : 

Last Reviewed: February 4, 1999