DVD/CD writer not working

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by woodmaster, Dec 29, 2006.

  1. woodmaster

    woodmaster Geek Trainee

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    As stated nothing from it at all, device manager says its working properly yet it wont play anything and I cant burn to it in media player and I cant find the disc with any driver for it but I would of thought it would plug and play and to make matters worse I dont know what make it is, any suggestions:( Oh and its just been fitted to my media pc befor that it was sitting idle for a few months
     
  2. roy92

    roy92 CSS HAXOR

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    i've had this problem before and its not pleasant:(

    first, what's the o/s of your pc? if it's xp, then i would uninstall sp2 and see if it works, (thats wat happened to me) then reinstall it.

    but if u got mce, then i dont know:x:
     
  3. woodmaster

    woodmaster Geek Trainee

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    The OS is xp sp2 and it worked on this setup before.
     
  4. roy92

    roy92 CSS HAXOR

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    hav u tried system restore to a time wen it worked?
     
  5. donkey42

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    try using the drive on another system and also try another drive on your system, and post the results here
     
  6. woodmaster

    woodmaster Geek Trainee

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    Thanx for you're help guys I'm gonna try the drive in my other pc tomorrow and see what happens at least that way I can use the web to find a driver and hopefully save it to a disc as the media pc is'nt connected to the internet yet Im waiting to get some wireless stuff when her indoors lets me(she not understand):chk:
     
  7. woodmaster

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    Ok, I put the drive in the other pc and the problems the same and also the tray was catching on some other part of the front face of the drive so I think I might bin it as I've found a samsung dvd+/- R/RW/CDR/CDRW & DL for £20 online at scan.com so think I'll just get that one.
     

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