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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey View Post
The burned cd's that it will not read, where they burned by that device?
yes

The blank cd's that it will not read, have you successfully used media from that batch before or is this new media?
yes

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.
I figured I had nothing to lose
So how do I know if my drive is a SATA or IDE? Dell was worthless for help. The phone rep said he had a replacement drive that is 1/2 height and I knew that wasn't correct.
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