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Problem Laptop DVD drive
Name: xendistar Date: September 27, 2008 at 16:03:03 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1gb Product: HP
Comment:
I have a HP laptop where the DVD drive is causing problem. It won't record DVD or CD's, if you put a movie DVD in the drive sometimes it won't acknowledge there is a disk there, when it does it refuses to play. Sometimes when you boot the laptop the DVD drive is not even seen.
Is this likely to be a Windows XP problem of a hardware issue??
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