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Title: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: medicboy on December 12, 2003, 12:02:18 AM

A few days ago I tried to save some pics off my digital camera by burning them onto a cd (like I have done for several years now)  the cd drive opened fine, closed fine.  I tried to format the new disk and It said there was no media loaded, so I started looking and found that even under system manager there is only my dvd drive listed, the burner is just gone.... ????  SO I tried to instal it as new hardware and XP can't find it.  Does anyone have any Ideas, is it dead?  If so how hard is it to instal a new burner.  I am fairly competent in gadgets, I know haw to instal pci cards, ram ect.

Pleas I need help, I don't want to store this stuff on my hard drive.

Thanks:confused:

Title: Re: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: Lazerus on December 12, 2003, 12:19:25 AM

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Originally posted by medicboy
A few days ago I tried to save some pics off my digital camera ...............


Pleas I need help, I don't want to store this stuff on my hard drive.

Lol, what the hell are ya taking pictures of?:p

Title: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: SaburoS on December 12, 2003, 12:23:41 AM

If you haven't already done so, post this in the "Hardware and Software" section. The O'Club postings don't stay on the front page long enough usually.

Title: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: medicboy on December 12, 2003, 12:23:58 AM

Crap, thanks for pointing that out, I might have to change the working a little!!!!!!!

I don't want to take up a bunch of room on my hard drive by storing pics.  

And then there is that red head next door....:eek:

Title: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: Sox62 on December 12, 2003, 12:29:01 AM

1:Could be a Windows problem...OS may need to be reinstalled.

2:Could be the drive is fubared'.

3:Your IDE channel could be fried.

4:The power supply or IDE cable on the drive may have come loose-reseat them.The IDE cable could also be bad.


Try four first...only guesses,but know way for me to check without being hands on.

Title: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: Dingbat on December 12, 2003, 07:58:08 AM

It's probably the Upperfilters Lowerfilters problem...

Did you have adaptec Easy cd creator installed?

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q270/0/08.ASP

Title: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: pugg666 on December 12, 2003, 09:31:36 AM

uhm try this before you do anything drastic.

check your BIOS on start up and see if it's recognized, if not try to auto-detect it.

Title: puter cant find my cd burner....
Post by: JBA on December 12, 2003, 09:46:03 AM

Probly just a sowtware glich. But no cd/dvd dives are not hard to install. a few screws plug in the power the IDE cable and done.