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CD Drive not working

post #1 of 4
9/6/06 at 12:03pm
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I was trying to write to a CD the other day (Travelmate 8200) and I kept getting media errors. Now I can't even read CDs. The drive spins for a while, but the CD isn't recognized. Here's the weird thing though, it can read DVDs just fine! I thought that there was some conflicting software/drivers or something but I now realize that if I boot the laptop with a CD, it's still not recognized and tries to read it for a minute or so before giving up. This makes me think that it is something hardware related.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks!
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post #2 of 4
9/6/06 at 2:31pm
it could be that ur cd reading lense is failing - funny that this is not the first time i heard that after an error prone cd burning session, cds can no longer be read/accessed
tried an optical cleaning disk, no guaranteed that it'd work

cheers ...
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post #3 of 4
9/6/06 at 3:39pm
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Thanks for the reply. I'm going to pick up a cleaning disk to see if that helps...but I'm not hopeful...
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post #4 of 4
9/7/06 at 9:54pm
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Well, the cleaning disk didn't work... :-(

I'm thinking that it's a hardware problem - I can't even boot from a CD, so the software/drivers shouldn't even be a factor...right??

It's odd though that DVDs work fine.

What are the chances that Acer will ship me a replacement drive instead of me sending the whole notebook back?? Not good I imagine. :-(
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