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Need Help with DVD RW Drive
It recognizes purchased CD's but will not recognized burned CD's or blank CD's. It just starts clicking over and over for a minute or two and then gives an error message.
Since it does read purchased CD's and blank DVD-Rs I don't think its a software issue. Tried the following: -rebooting -blowing out dust, -reaching a long cue-tip in there to clan what I guess is the lens, -pushing the lens to the back -Windows Explorer doesn't recognize a disc in there. I've got a 5.5 year old Dell running Vista 64 bit that works great otherwise. Full tower full height drive. Is the drive toast? If so will any DVD-RW fit the tower? |
After burning CD's and DVD's, there's usually a step called "finalizing" that closes it out and makes it recognizable on other machines... make sure you've done that.
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Can't get the drive to see the blank CDR to burn anything onto it. Just clicking (the head bumping against the stop?)
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Ahhh. I dunno... that's all I got. :)
Somebody much more knowledgeable will be along to help you out eventually... you can be certain of that. In the meantime, spray WD-40 liberally inside the drive door. :eek: |
The burned cd's that it will not read, where they burned by that device?
The blank cd's that it will not read, have you successfully used media from that batch before or is this new media? FYI, the drive has two lasers, one for CD's, one for DVD's. It's not uncommon for one to fail while the other continues to function so the fact that blank DVD's work is of little relevance for the CD problem. And stop sticking stuff in there, that's a bad idea. It's not a cassette player. |
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http://www.stepbystep.com/wp-content...E-Harddisk.jpg
Probably easiest to just grab a new one. They've become cheap enough to be disposable. |
A new SATA DVD/CD burner is less than $20...
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LG, Samsung, ASUS, Liteon
Any suggestions which one? |
OK. I don't want to shut the system down tonight so can I tell from the info below if I have IDE DVD/CD?
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1394938919.jpg The pics stomachmonkey posted was for harddrives. Would the pin configuration be the same for optical drives? |
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...that would be my guess. Don't know about pin configuration. |
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It no matter. http://www.computer-hardware-explain...e-labelled.jpg |
Thanks for the help! Its a good thing I didn't go by the System Config Info:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1395004308.jpg Looks like full height to me: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1395004368.jpg Do all drives have the open/closed button configured in the same spot? The Dell has a face cover: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1395005132.jpg |
Just buy the 1st one you find at Newegg, TigerDirect or MicroCenter. They're all the same... I just bought one for $17...
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Just installed a new ASUS DVDCD burner from Newegg. Less than $30 with tax and shipping. Had to remove the power supply and processer fan to do the swap but easy enough.
Thanks to all who helped with info. |
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