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DVD-RW not working
Name: brickman0430 Date: January 24, 2009 at 05:31:51 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: 2.8 GHz / 445 MB Product: Gateway / E4084 Subcategory: General
Comment:
I recently had a trojan on my computer, and had to repair windows XP, since then my DVD-RW does'nt work, anybody have an ideas, i'm assuming these two things are linked, but if anyone can help,thanks in advance.
Name: Richard59 Date: January 24, 2009 at 05:58:17 Pacific
Reply:
What does Device Manager have to say about the drive?
Set bios boot order to CD/DVD drive as first boot device and try booting to it using any bootable CD, eg: your XP instal disk.
Will it boot? If so your problem is software related. If not then it's hardware.
Goin' Fishin' (Some day)
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: January 24, 2009 at 07:46:46 Pacific
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"I recently had a trojan on my computer, and had to repair windows XP"
What do you mean you had to repair? Why didn't you just remove the trojan? Are you sure your system is trojan free? Disable system restore (all restore points will be lost), boot into safe mode & run this:
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