I am using windows XP home and about 2 or 3 months after using it i try to open my cd-rom drive. I have 2 (burner,DVD) both say "error: E:/ or F:/ is not accessable access denied. sometimes only one will say this or both will. Then if i restart or sometimes if i try a different user they will work. Anyone know what is causing this?? In compaq communities some guy told me to d-load the system rom file and update it but i did that and still does it. can someone please help me. this is driving me nuts!

if it works on other logins, boot into safe mode as admin (F8) then delete your user, and remake it, if thiers files you want choose keep files, i suggest satring a new account, :-?

its F 8

yeah but its not only my account that does this. it does it on all of them at certain times.

try do a back up and a fresh install, or get a virus scanner,

well this issue is resolved. i uninstalled the devices then restarted then it said the drivers were setup and stuff and i had restart again. Then my brother got on and he said the cd-rom was still doing the same and he restarted. after that i got a blue screen saying i had a unmountable boot volume and it wouldn't let me get into safe mode or anything so i had to reformat the drive. well thats the only way i knew of doing it.