Drive questions/IE Problems

[Darth_Maul_X2]

1) My other computer has a pritty old 8x cd-rom drive that wont read cd-rs unless i warm it up with factory cd's first, is there a program i can run to fix this?

2) I have an old B: floppy drive that i have hooked up to my other computer and windows is not detecting it, what do i do?

3) My default bgcolor for IE is grey, how can i make it white?



4) IE is not refreshing with meta tags, how can i fix this?

[adi]

i dont think any software can fix your first one. have you tried cleaning the lens?

[blizz]

2) check the cables are shoved in properly (why two floppy drives though?)
3) alter your settings, right click on your desktop and select properties, select the appearance tag, then scroll down to application background in the middle drop box, choose application background and you can change the colour from there, this will affect all programs.

[Darth_Maul_X2]

i dont think any software can fix your first one. have you tried cleaning the lens?

Yes

2) check the cables are shoved in properly (why two floppy drives though?)

Yes everything is tight, the one I am trying to get to work is one of those old big floppy things, cant remember the size.

3) alter your settings, right click on your desktop and select properties, select the appearance tag, then scroll down to application background in the middle drop box, choose application background and you can change the colour from there, this will affect all programs.

thats already white.

[zorbid]

For the background:

In IE:
Open the tools menu and chose internet options.
There's a "color" button at the bottom of the window.

[Darth_Maul_X2]

cool thanks

[Slougi]

did u enable the floppy drive in the bios?

[EdgeBlade]

I added a DVD drive and had to end up reinstalling windows for it to show up in "My Computer".

Funny thing was I could access it by manualy typing in the address in IE. Can you access it that way?

[Trotterwatch]

You should have just clicked on refresh in My Computer, would have saved you a lot of time.

[zorbid]

the cable may be "upside down". Not all cables are "one way only".