Thanks for the suggestions. The goalposts are moving tho.
It will read cdrom's with games on it but will not read a cdrom that has been prepared for me e.g. one that has been written with manuals from company etc.
Is there something about writing a track on the cdrom that displays its info? Is it a FAT? I can only presume it can't read them it used to display "JAR OPS E:/" etc but not now.
It says the device is working properly. I haven't deleted the driver as I'm beginning to wonder if its the cd's but they are readable on other machines.
Will persevere.
SS