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CD Rom Drive doesn't work
Name: Bryan (by extreme486) Date: December 6, 2004 at 19:23:52 Pacific OS: WIN XP HE CPU/Ram: P4 2.6 Ghz/512 MB
Comment:
My CD rom drive doesn't work on my laptop it is a Dell Inspiron 5100 the CD rom drive will spin and act like it is reading the disc, but when i go into My computer and click on the CD ROM drive it won't recognize the disc in the drive it will just say please insert disc into Drive D: so anyhelp will definitly help thanks
Name: Bryan (by extreme486) Date: December 6, 2004 at 20:03:28 Pacific
Reply:
Just to add to the previous message what i have is a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241N cd/DVD/CRRW drive and what is weird is that it will play DVD's but won't recognize a cd So once again any help will definitely help me Bryan
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Response Number 2
Name: LL Date: December 6, 2004 at 20:41:17 Pacific
Reply:
Is it a burned cd or all cd's, even factory produced?
sLLs
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Response Number 3
Name: Bryan (by extreme486) Date: December 8, 2004 at 11:30:31 Pacific
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