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If there is anyone that knows anything about laptops help would be very much appreciated. My brother has lent me a laptop to try and sort out and uh.. for some reason it won't read CDs. This is the only problem with it. Every time I/we put in a CD it makes a few noises but tells me the drive is empty. Herlp! |
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well obviously you broke cd drive. |
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are the cds burned or original? |
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Original |
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if the laptop has a hot-swapable drive bay, you'll be sorted because you can get a replacement easily |
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cat piss ? |
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i'll assume you already tried to reinstall the drivers? |
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Can't reinstall anything if it can't read CDs |
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you could download the drivers... |
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the drivers may still be on the machine... |
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you shouldn't need drivers a cd drive is a cd drive windows has a standard ATAPI cd drive, which WILL work with all optical media drives or at least windows will have the drivers |
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windows has a standard ATAPI cd drive, which WILL work with all optical media drives that should read ......standard ATAPI cd drivers |
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laptops are weird when it comes to drivers...i had quite a bit of trouble reinstalling everything...it wouldn't surprise me if cd drive would need driver. |
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My modem is not yet installed so... zguru: I've looked.. they're not. They're on CDs that came with the laptop but the laptop won't read them! |
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but it wont need one though, because as said, windows will have standard drivers for optical drives and if they do, then laptops use some FUCKED up optical drives |
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reformat |
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throw it out the window and buy a macintosh. |
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