Jamie K Jukes
New Member
Hello everyone,
This is my first thread (hopefully many more to come).
I'll set the scene, the scene is me moving home and finding a 1996 Panasonic CF-25 laptop that isn't working. Now, I love to mess about with older stuff because its just that little bit more challenging.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I fixed it and it ran Windows 95, I wiped it out of the goodness of my heart as it appeared to used to belong to a Gas company. I've re-installed windows 95 with a shady ISO but my own Product Key, I've installed the drivers and everything works beautifully. Now comes along the issue:
So in the midst of moving house I thought I'd give the optical drive a whirl and stick on a CD, I opened up the CD Player software that comes with Windows 95 and it worked perfectly, however Windows Explorer no longer sees any data on the disk but does recognise its there, I've tried multiple CD's but according to Explorer, they are all blank. Weirdly enough, I am still able to use the CD player software to play songs.
I have tried ending the CD Player process using CTRL-ALT-DEL, and even gone to the lengths of re-installing the drivers for the optical drive but still no luck.
If I were to have it a guess, I would imagine that something on the software side of things between the CD Player software and Windows Explorer are clashing but I cant for the life of me figure out what.
I don't really want to re-install Windows again because it took hours. If anyone has any thoughts on the subject then that would be great.
I know its a pointless operating system in our day in age but I am just doing it for the nostalgia and also because its really nagging me that I don't know what is going on.
Thank you in advance.
This is my first thread (hopefully many more to come).
I'll set the scene, the scene is me moving home and finding a 1996 Panasonic CF-25 laptop that isn't working. Now, I love to mess about with older stuff because its just that little bit more challenging.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I fixed it and it ran Windows 95, I wiped it out of the goodness of my heart as it appeared to used to belong to a Gas company. I've re-installed windows 95 with a shady ISO but my own Product Key, I've installed the drivers and everything works beautifully. Now comes along the issue:
So in the midst of moving house I thought I'd give the optical drive a whirl and stick on a CD, I opened up the CD Player software that comes with Windows 95 and it worked perfectly, however Windows Explorer no longer sees any data on the disk but does recognise its there, I've tried multiple CD's but according to Explorer, they are all blank. Weirdly enough, I am still able to use the CD player software to play songs.
I have tried ending the CD Player process using CTRL-ALT-DEL, and even gone to the lengths of re-installing the drivers for the optical drive but still no luck.
If I were to have it a guess, I would imagine that something on the software side of things between the CD Player software and Windows Explorer are clashing but I cant for the life of me figure out what.
I don't really want to re-install Windows again because it took hours. If anyone has any thoughts on the subject then that would be great.
I know its a pointless operating system in our day in age but I am just doing it for the nostalgia and also because its really nagging me that I don't know what is going on.
Thank you in advance.