I have a Dell 8300, P4, XP, SP2, and the system no longer finds my CD neither on restart or cold boot. It does not show up on my computer or explorer and inserting a CD, it is just dead. Just prior to that, I connected my daughter's Fuji camera (via USB), and it did not show up as a removable...

I had a problem 2 days ago: I wanted to put a CD in my CD-ROM drive, so I pushed the "eject" button, and nothing happened, except for the small light in front of the unit who lit up for about 2 seconds. So I thought there must have been something in there, but no. When I clicked on the...

I have an HP CD writer,when i try to close the tray it starts to go back & stops. Then i have to push it closed manually. Is there a way to lubricate it or something else to free it up ?

Got a new computer with Win2k Pro & installed my old Acer 1832a CD burner as a slave to the CD/DVD drive. After a half hour or more of use, access to "look in" drop-down lists and the drive tree display in "my computer" would slow. Eventually, access would hang altogether, giving me a "not...

Hi guys for some reason my CD-Writer seems to have stopped working both as a writer and a reader, it used to work fine but i've been trying to write a CD all day and have gotten nowhere. Basically as soon as i put a CD into it, it just freezes and i can't access the CD. Before when you put a CD in...

Hi im not sure if this is the right forum. I just bought a 52x cd writer, but so far i can only write audio cd's at 4x. It comes up with the error "CAn only write at 4x because the data source is too slow" Why is this? I can write data and mp3 cd's at 40x. I have checked all the settings and cant...

I would like to ask for some help on a CD and a DVD problem.. The computer is a Compaq and everytime you stand it up correctly the CD case want's to come out and everytime you close it the CD case will open back up. Now to the DVD Player. The DVD Player doe's not seem to work correctly because...

Hi all...looking at a friend's machine whose cd's do not start upon putting them in their cd drive. It once worked. Where can that option be turned on? Using w98se. thanks.. Dave

Every time I search for CD+R, (Google, Wikipedia, etc.) all I get is references to CD-R. I use the CD-R myself but chatting around the coffee shop, questions come up about the differences. (I know this has come up before many times.) Where can I find information about the differences if...

hey there all, new to this forum and seeking some answers. I have a friend who has a pc. they replaced a cd-drive in it 2 months ago. now the replacement has died.

A while ago there was some caution about using stick-on labels for CD's and DVD's in that they could have some effect on the data. I have some Avery labels I wish to use on some backup data DVD's. What is the latest opinion on the use of labels? Also, what is the latest opinion on using felt...

I running windows 7 and have a TSST CDDVDW SN-S083B ATA Device. Suddenly it won't read blank CD-RW or DVD-RW or DVD+RW, however it will continue to play standard audio CD. Bit puzzled, if it were a hardware problem surely it wouldn't read any disks. Any ideas? Peter

i have two drives both no older than 8 months i put a CD-R with backed up files on in this morning and both drives 1 : sony CRX320E cd-rw/dvd-rom 2 : Sony dvd-rw DW-D22A nothing happens, no icon appears in my computer, nothing these drives were working fine just yesterday, the drives are...

What's the best quality branded CD-R and CD-RW media at the mo. Just got a nice new 52x24x52 machine so want the best discs. Thanks

Anyone know the "official" name of the little colored CD cases for CD-R's? Not the ones that look like regular music CD cases, these are a bit thinner, usually have a clear front and the back is colored. Anyonw know where I can pick up a case of like 100 or so or more, cheap online?

lately the CDRs I burn are getting hot. They werent cool before, but now they are real hot. I mean like baked. When a CDR (like everything else) gets hot it expands, then when it cools off it contracts. Does that damage it? Will it be readable? Is there risk of loss of data? Is this a good reason...

I have an HP PC, XP Home SP1, with a Lite-on CD-R/RW burner and a recently added SONY DVD/CD burner (both internal). I tried to add files to a data CD-R today that I had previously burned, and the Wizard does not recognize that there is a writeable CD-R in the slot. This happens with both burners....

If I plug one cd-rom and one hdd to the same IDE (master/slave), will the hdd be as slow as the cd-rom or what?

ok, my CPU was knocked over today and now the cd-rom drive wont close. i need to fix it because its a borrowed CPU. what could be wrong and how do i fix it?

My daughter's computer has the above problem. I can see plenty on Google about the drive not being detected by either, but not this scenario. I assume that it is a Windows problem, although it happened half-way through a reinstall. Even the boot floppy can't see the drive, and refuses to...