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Topic: While we're on Dell DVD drives |
Ken Lang
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Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 20 Mar 2007 6:12 pm |
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I have a Dell 8300 with an XP OS. It has a DVD/CD drive and a DVD drive. I can no longer get the DVD drive to work. I can see when I look in My Computer and when I put a disc in it lights up and spins around.
The problem is it always says it needs me to put in a disc, even when it has one in it.
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Joe Harwell
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"I've never been bad." ........ Many, LA
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Posted 20 Mar 2007 6:28 pm Try known good drive
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That's the problem when you cast the demon out of one system, it finds another one to possess<gr>! I guess Leon's evil imp found your machine.
Do you have a known good one you could try, Ken?
That's the down and dirty, quick and easy way to find out if the drive is "bad".
Also, does it do it on all CD's/DVD's?
Certainly not trying to insult your intelligence,
but I don't care how long you work with these things,
it's easy to miss the obvious and most simple solutions.
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Joe in LA
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak & the strong; because, someday in life you will have been all of these". |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 2:14 am
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The first step would be to uninstall the DVD drive in the Windows Device Manager then restart Windows (reboot). Windows will "find new hardware" and reinstall the drive.
If that doesn't work, there are several other things that can be attempted, such as the upper/lower filters, etc. |
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