Computer changed DVD/CD Drive to CDFS and won't play discs

After trying to back up some of my music cds (store-purchased) using EAC and a .WAV converter then removing the programs the next day because they were too cumbersome for me, my computer suddenly decided to not autoplay or even play ANY discs inserted into the drive (the same discs that have always played just fine). Now, when I put a disc in the drive, it says "0 bytes free of 0 bytes" CDFS. This is totally new, and I've never seen this CDFS before. When I double-click the drive, it says, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or if one is already installed, create and association in the Default Programs Control Panel". If I right-click it, and hit open, it opens and I can see the files and they do play, but what the heck? I've searched like crazy for a solution, but have gotten nowhere. Is there a way to put my DVD/CD drive settings back the way they were, or am I looking at doing a complete system recovery? Thank you so much for any advice.

Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately, that's not an option because my computer doesn't list a restore point to before this, even though this all occurred yesterday and the night before (looks like I need to change my restore settings). Any other ideas?

Thank you again for your reply. I did as you suggested, but unfortunately still have the same issue. I was so hopeful! I'm just at a complete loss. I hate to have to do a system recovery, but I guess I may have to? (provided my recovery discs will even be read by the drive to begin the recovery process) I'm still not even sure what caused this. *Stupid question alert*- In a case where a person downloads and then uninstalls several programs- do programs ever move important files from their original locations on your computer to folders in the downloaded program, that then get deleted when you uninstall the program? Sorry, just had to ask... Thanks again!

Just a quick update- After running sfc /scannow and chkdsk, along with some other things with no success, I decided to just go ahead and do a system recovery, which fixed the problem. Thank you again, and I'll check out the "Audiograbber" that you mentioned. :)

SJKNG said:

Just a quick update- After running sfc /scannow and chkdsk, along with some other things with no success, I decided to just go ahead and do a system recovery, which fixed the problem. Thank you again, and I'll check out the "Audiograbber" that you mentioned. :)

That was perhaps the only way to go.

However hard I tried to find a solution for this problem doing a google search, I could not find any handle. Three DELL tech. support personnel tried to help one of the users with the same problem. All suggested methods, including some registry manipulation failed. What was clear however was that it is not a hardware problem. ( One user finally reinstalled Windows.)

I was about to suggest the only solution that came to my mind that of restoring the default file associations. If you look here Default File Type Associations - Restore there is one registry merge file for AudioCD - Audio CD protocol associations. I was not sure whether it would have helped. Thought Brink would know better about it and kept quiet.:)

jumanji, I hope you see this- your fix did work for me. I was late to the party- 911 days to be exact, and I've been messing with this for three days.
My symptoms occurred after I downloaded RealPlayer to convert some music files to MP3- since WMP doesn't do this. I then uninstalled RealPlayer and that's when I had the issue. Tried re-installing, Registry fixes, driver fixes and your association restore fix was what did the trick.
I hope this gets to you so you know your post did help someone- thank you much!
I'll try to pay it forward- but, I'm pretty dumb!

Real Player and all of their programs flat out suck.