CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!?
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Name: Horn Beast
Date: January 18, 2006 at 20:58:04 Pacific
Subject: CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!?OS: MECPU/Ram: Pentium 3 850 MHz |
Comment: My CD-RW doesnt seem to work at all any more. It doesnt read any cds or it won't burn any cds. I suspect a drivers/software issue. Its properly connected up as I've never removed it before. I have a LG CD-RW CED-8083B. Though checking System>Devices, it says its just a 'CD Rom'. I'm not sure how long its been like this as I havent used the cd-rw in a while. I need a way to make the computer recognise what it really is (I presume). I suspect I need drivers for it, but I can't find any myself on the internet. I cant seem to get the LG site to work properly to see if they any offical drivers. Any help on getting this sorted would be appreciated. Or know somewhere I can obtain drivers for it. Thanks. -HB
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Name: Ed in Texas.
Date: January 19, 2006 at 02:11:10 Pacific
Subject: CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!? |
Reply: (edit)Horn Beast, take a look at a lot of drivers to choose from @:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=LG+CD-RW+CED-8083B+drivers&btnG=Google+Search
HTH.
Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Brim
Date: January 19, 2006 at 04:30:00 Pacific
Subject: CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!? |
Reply: (edit)Win ME always shows CDRW as CD-ROM's in Device Manager & My Computer, it is Win XP that knows about CDRW. In Win ME it is the burning software that knows that it is a burner drive. As your drive won't even read CD's I suspect your drive's laser optics have just died.
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Name: Nick Ritchie
Date: January 19, 2006 at 04:58:10 Pacific
Subject: CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!? |
Reply: (edit) My PC has a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW ,the CD-RW a LG 8120B ,does show up in device manager as exactly that ,with model # and all .I have had very good results with this burner .Do you not have the originial installation CD that came with the burner ,and also in device manager you can try the remove button and upon reboot the system should automatically detect the drive and reinstall it for you ?
Good Luck Nick
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Name: jam
Date: January 20, 2006 at 05:27:49 Pacific
Subject: CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!? |
Reply: (edit)"take a look at a lot of drivers to choose from" You should not have to install drivers for an optical drive...the necessary drivers are built into windows. Try booting to safe mode, go to Device Manager & remove ALL listings for your optical drives (& I do mean ALL). Reboot & let WinME sort it out This space for rent
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Name: vipergg
Date: January 28, 2006 at 05:04:30 Pacific
Subject: CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!? |
Reply: (edit) I agree I have a LG in a IBM pc and it shows up as CDRW along with the other drive which is DVDrom . Not sure how that would change on it's own . If you kept any restore points try going back a couple of months.
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Name: bennyboy
Date: January 28, 2006 at 13:42:34 Pacific
Subject: CD-RW has become a CD-ROM!?!? |
Reply: (edit)I have just noticed the same problem with my computer. My Cd-RW is listed as a CD-ROM. Windows XP SP2. It only reads Rom disks not RWs What I suggest, which is what I am going to do is to remove the drivers and leave XP to re-recognise the CD-RW,
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