waybrane Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 well, i have friend who has no cd drive recongized........he's running windows xp, its a combo drive samsug sm308b, and we have tried downloading the correct driver and still to no avail. what would be the best way to solve this without a reformat?
net_user Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 couple of questions....did you just add the drive?do you already have a cdrom drive in?if so...did you slave it off the 1st cdrom drive?if not...did you go into the bios of your pc and turn it on?
waybrane Posted October 24, 2005 Author Posted October 24, 2005 this was an original install, there were no additions or adjustments, i believe its due to wear and tear.........but still have 3.5 floppy drive, thought maybe still might be able to add neccesary files.....?????? so there was no need to change slave/master situation.............when reboot, i tried to F8, and go into bios, but that command did not result in anything.........maybe there is another F key that i should use?
wizardofwindows Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 f1 or esc should get u into bios see if cdrom is enabled .
net_user Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 what kind of pc is it? dell, compaq, ect...cutom built?did this cdrom work before?
waybrane Posted October 25, 2005 Author Posted October 25, 2005 the system was custom built, and i assume we are talking about F1/esc on the reboot, ok, am i to assume there is no easy way to load commands for windows part of this problem, it doesn't seem to be the actual driver, i redownloaded the driver for the cd-rw/dvd combo drive.
waybrane Posted October 25, 2005 Author Posted October 25, 2005 i noticed on recent post a person asked if there was a quick fix and i just realized that i did try to system restore and no luck, and then i thought i had remembered that if u place the windows xp disk in at reboot, that there was an option to repair rather than reformat, but if u can't get cdrom to read, which is the case for his computer, what then, not sure if we are talking hardware rather than software, hmmmmmm, now i am confused??????
net_user Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 i noticed on recent post a person asked if there was a quick fix and i just realized that i did try to system restore and no luck, and then i thought i had remembered that if u place the windows xp disk in at reboot, that there was an option to repair rather than reformat, but if u can't get cdrom to read, which is the case for his computer, what then, not sure if we are talking hardware rather than software, hmmmmmm, now i am confused??????i think you might have a hardware problem...can you replace the rom drive to see if that fixes it?
waybrane Posted October 25, 2005 Author Posted October 25, 2005 i guess the only reason i don't think it might be a hardware problem is when i try to use the cdrom that the light just flickers like its trying to read like crazy..........i'm trying to exhaust all options for the moment....my friend has some real health issue's, his back is real bad and his economics are very limited, so i'm trying to help him out........sorry to be such a pain........
net_user Posted October 27, 2005 Posted October 27, 2005 if you have no cdrom drive showing up in "my computer" then you have a hardware problem...even if the cdrom light is "flickering"just for grins...can you replace the cdrom drive? just to see if it is a hardware problem
Redcloud Posted October 27, 2005 Posted October 27, 2005 Its either the CD drive or the cable. If trying another CD drive doesn't work, try replacing the cable. Easiest way is to test another both options by not actually removing the original. Just plug the cables, suspend the new CD and reboot. What happens?
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