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Heres my problem my coomputers cd drives will not work. I try to reinstall the drivers by using the cd but if the cd drive isnt working then the cd is useless. Its starting to drive me crazy i cant get it fixed. does any one have some advice please help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Have you tried deleting the device in device manager and then letting it reinstall?
If that doesn't work, you might have to flatten the machine and reinstall windows. One of my friends at work just brought his PC in this morning with the same problem. The tech support guy worked with it for several hours and then gave up and flattened it. Of course, you need to back up your data first.
If that doesn't work, you might have to flatten the machine and reinstall windows. One of my friends at work just brought his PC in this morning with the same problem. The tech support guy worked with it for several hours and then gave up and flattened it. Of course, you need to back up your data first.
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Originally Posted by jamesglewisf
Have you tried deleting the device in device manager and then letting it reinstall?
If that doesn't work, you might have to flatten the machine and reinstall windows. One of my friends at work just brought his PC in this morning with the same problem. The tech support guy worked with it for several hours and then gave up and flattened it. Of course, you need to back up your data first.
If that doesn't work, you might have to flatten the machine and reinstall windows. One of my friends at work just brought his PC in this morning with the same problem. The tech support guy worked with it for several hours and then gave up and flattened it. Of course, you need to back up your data first.
thanks but what is flattened? and how do you back up things
Originally Posted by Frank Castle
thanks but what is flattened? and how do you back up things
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go to www.bootdisk.com and download a win 98 boot disk.
Get a fresh floppy disk, insert it and then run the program you downloaded. You will now have a bootable floppy.
Boot with the floppy inserted and choose the "boot with cd rom support" option.
If you can DOS switch to the cd drive ( type D:\ at the c:\ prompt) then your cd drive is fine and the error is in the operating system.
If you cannot see your drive in DOS mode, then the drive is bad and you will need to replace it.
If it is operating system, try running a firmware (hardware vs software driver) update (download firmware from the manufacturer).
Also, you can download the latest BIOS for your motherboard and Flash the BIOS. Sometimes this works.
If none of the above works then you will probably need to reload the O.S.
Backups can be done by attaching another drive, as slave, to your IDE or SCSI channel depending on which you have. If you don't have another drive you can partition off your hard drive (if it's big enough) and install the OS on the remainder, back up your stuff, then reinstall the OS... it's ugly but it works.
Get a fresh floppy disk, insert it and then run the program you downloaded. You will now have a bootable floppy.
Boot with the floppy inserted and choose the "boot with cd rom support" option.
If you can DOS switch to the cd drive ( type D:\ at the c:\ prompt) then your cd drive is fine and the error is in the operating system.
If you cannot see your drive in DOS mode, then the drive is bad and you will need to replace it.
If it is operating system, try running a firmware (hardware vs software driver) update (download firmware from the manufacturer).
Also, you can download the latest BIOS for your motherboard and Flash the BIOS. Sometimes this works.
If none of the above works then you will probably need to reload the O.S.
Backups can be done by attaching another drive, as slave, to your IDE or SCSI channel depending on which you have. If you don't have another drive you can partition off your hard drive (if it's big enough) and install the OS on the remainder, back up your stuff, then reinstall the OS... it's ugly but it works.
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