i have a dell inspiron 1300. it had roxio and nero installed on it. i used the roxio to burn cd's until recently. the drive seems to have gone bad. i cannot burn a cd using it. i have uninstalled both roxio and nero to no avail. all that shows when a disc dvd or cd is blank. what can i do?
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Faulty Cd Drive
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kilakhan
, Mar 28 2011 01:45 AM
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Posted 28 March 2011 - 03:27 AM
kilakhan, on 28 March 2011 - 01:45 AM, said:
i have a dell inspiron 1300. it had roxio and nero installed on it. i used the roxio to burn cd's until recently. the drive seems to have gone bad. i cannot burn a cd using it. i have uninstalled both roxio and nero to no avail. all that shows when a disc dvd or cd is blank. what can i do?
Did you try the same thing as in your other post with the HP? What about the Toshiba?
Does Windows see you cd drive?
Go to Windows Device Manager and find that drive listed. Right click to delete it, confirm that you want to delete it and then reboot. Windows should find it and reinstall it again.
If that doesn't work, here is the Windows article on it. You did not say what operating system you are using; this is for XP.
You must have several computers with the same issue. How did that happen?
Edited by sknis, 28 March 2011 - 03:42 AM.
Regardless of what I say about computer maintenance, there is no need to defrag a solid state hard drive.
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Dell XPS 1645, Intel I7 1,6G with overdrive ,4G RAM, 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730, Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Panzer, 500G hard drive.
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MacBook Pro; 15.4-inch widescreen display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 200GB hard drive, 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. ILife 08, Toast 10, Final Cut Express 4 and Photoshop 4.
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Posted 28 March 2011 - 03:40 AM
thanks for replying sknis...when i go to device manager it shows dvd/cd-rom drives..when i expand that i get _NEC DVD +-RW6650A and a USB device which is my internet connection modem. if i right click on the NEC part I get the following options...update driver, disable, uninstall, scan for hardware changes, properties...there is nothing like delete there...what do i do?
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Posted 28 March 2011 - 03:44 AM
kilakhan, on 28 March 2011 - 03:40 AM, said:
thanks for replying sknis...when i go to device manager it shows dvd/cd-rom drives..when i expand that i get _NEC DVD +-RW6650A and a USB device which is my internet connection modem. if i right click on the NEC part I get the following options...update driver, disable, uninstall, scan for hardware changes, properties...there is nothing like delete there...what do i do?
Uninstall = delete. Sorry for the incorrect term I used.
Regardless of what I say about computer maintenance, there is no need to defrag a solid state hard drive.
PC Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Velocity Micro ProMagix ©HD 60; evga x58 motherboard, Intel i7 @2.93, 12G RAM, EVGA Nvidia 560TI superclocked video card, SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme audio card, Buffalo external blu-ray burner; Creator 2012. PhotoShow 6, VHS to DVD 3Plus.
Laptop - Windows 7 Home
Dell XPS 1645, Intel I7 1,6G with overdrive ,4G RAM, 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730, Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Panzer, 500G hard drive.
Apple =OSX 10.5
MacBook Pro; 15.4-inch widescreen display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 200GB hard drive, 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. ILife 08, Toast 10, Final Cut Express 4 and Photoshop 4.
PC Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Velocity Micro ProMagix ©HD 60; evga x58 motherboard, Intel i7 @2.93, 12G RAM, EVGA Nvidia 560TI superclocked video card, SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme audio card, Buffalo external blu-ray burner; Creator 2012. PhotoShow 6, VHS to DVD 3Plus.
Laptop - Windows 7 Home
Dell XPS 1645, Intel I7 1,6G with overdrive ,4G RAM, 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730, Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Panzer, 500G hard drive.
Apple =OSX 10.5
MacBook Pro; 15.4-inch widescreen display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 200GB hard drive, 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. ILife 08, Toast 10, Final Cut Express 4 and Photoshop 4.
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