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« on: January 29, 2008, 10:01:41 pm » |
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I have a problem, or rather my laptop has.
last night my DVD drive was working fine. Today it has disappeared completely. The disc spins in the drive but the icon for it has gone from the Hard Disc Drives in My Computer.
Can anyone tell me where it has gone and why and if possible how to get it back
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2008, 10:15:22 pm » |
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Which flavour of Windows?
I would be tempted to make sure there is no disc in the drive, delete all entries for the drive in Hardware manager (Control Panel, System somewhere depending which Windows). Then power off. Then power on and hope Windows finds it OK and creates a viable config. If not would get into the BIOS during boot (often Del key, sometimes F2 on Dells) and see if the BIOS knows about it.
Before doing this may be worth checking which kind of disks it can/cant see - music CD, data CD, movie DVD etc. But likely if it cant find 1 it cant find all. But may just be a duff disk.
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2008, 01:12:34 am » |
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Have you tried other cd's/dvd's? Like dukla2000 said, it may be a duff disk.
Maybe if you have a bootable cd-rom somewhere (like a WindowsXP installation CD) you could try booting from it. Make sure your BIOS is set to use a CD as first boot device rather than the harddisk. If this works, it's a Windows problem. If not, it's likely to be a hardware problem.
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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2008, 01:15:42 am » |
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I have a problem, or rather my laptop has.
last night my DVD drive was working fine. Today it has disappeared completely. The disc spins in the drive but the icon for it has gone from the Hard Disc Drives in My Computer.
Can anyone tell me where it has gone and why and if possible how to get it back
Which make/model of machine is it Bob??? Had a similar problem at work with an HP laptop a couple of months ago!! |
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Bob U
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2008, 09:48:25 am » |
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It's an HP. don't know which model. Won't play any disc althought I hear the drive start up and they spin.
I went into systems and devise management and the driver is listed but nothing I do will make it work. I've brought it into work today to let the IT guy have a look at it but I reckon it may well end up in a skip.
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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2008, 03:12:38 pm » |
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All sorted thanks to the IT dept. I didn't understand most of what he was waffling on about but basicly it was caused by a recent itunes upgrade disabling the DVD/CD driver. I'm all happy and smiley again now  |
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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2008, 04:23:28 pm » |
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Was it a privatly owned laptop Bob? If no, why is iTunes on there? If yes, you're lucky I'm not your IT guy!  Some collegues think I've got nothing better to do then fix up their privat computers which they screwed up themselves. After stating I can do that after work time at a rate of 50 euro's an hour it wasn't necessary anymore  |
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2008, 04:32:15 pm » |
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Yes, it was my laptop. It has cost me a bottle of wine to get it fixed but that's a lot less than taking it to a shop. He doesn't mind doing it as long as he is not busy. I think he likes a change from the usual company stuff
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2008, 07:24:00 pm » |
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I hate it when software goes about and change things in your configuration all by itself  (unless it's needed for the software to run ofcourse, but then still it should ask about it) |
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2008, 08:00:51 pm » |
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I didn't understand most of what he was waffling on about but basicly it was caused by a recent itunes upgrade disabling the DVD/CD driver.
That's Apple trying to f**k up a MS Windows machine  There's some secret code in itunes  |
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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2008, 08:18:20 pm » |
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f**k up a MS Windows machine Thats a contradictio in terminis. Any MS Windows machine is already f*cked up by definition There's some secret code in itunes Yes there is. It's not open source  |
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2008, 08:27:35 pm » |
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f**k up a MS Windows machine Thats a contradictio in terminis. Any MS Windows machine is already f*cked up by definition There's some secret code in itunes Yes there is. It's not open source they're just words to me. If you spoke them it would sound like :- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Much the same as when people use words about football |
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