We have had some great feedback on this problem
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Here's Wendy's reply:
Thanks for all your help.
The CD Drive does light up but does not spin. I did check all the cables and they seem to be firmly in their places.
Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, the CD Drive is there but has an alert symbol beside it!
When booting up it goes too fast to access the screen to see the list of drives.
Everything else seems to be OK.
Here's the feedback we have had from some other members:
- Howdy from the US and a friends of Ross's
Sometimes the E drive is replaced on the list of drives by a portable device such as a removable USB or a camera or something else. All that may be required is re-mapping the E to the CD drive.
Just a thought. Peace, Jef - Hi, I had a similar problem. CD/DVD drives just died. They didn't even show in 'My Computer'. I did a 'System Restore' and that fixed the problem. Lou Gardner
Ok - so Lou has suggested a system restore. This is likely to fix the problem if it originates from Windows, e.g. a corrupt driver or similar. If you have a recent restore point set (in Win XP or ME) then try rolling back to the earlier restore point and see if it helps.
If not then I suspect we have a drive that has died. One way to test it would be to take the drive out of your PC and plug it into someone else's. If it doesn't work there then it is likely gone to heaven.
Like anything electronic CD drives are susceptible to power surge and the like. And anything with moving parts can break or wear out. CD burners are pretty cheap these days and if you took it to a PC repair place they wouldn't even look at it they would just give you a new one.
So Wendy - try the system restore and if that doesn't work send me an email and I will give you a replacement drive to try in it's place.
Thanks everyone for the advice on this one
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