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    3050 DVDrom help please

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by radialman, Jan 14, 2007.

  1. radialman

    radialman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, my dvd-rom has gone nuts. The laptop is new (4 days old) and the optical drive will not burn dvd/cdrs, it will not "see" music, blank dvd/cdrs and cdroms at all. it only plays dvd's. It gives me "the disk in drive E is not formatted correctly' error. The drive will not even pick up the win XP bootable disk. What is wrong with this thing? Everything else on the laptop works well, it's just the optical drive has lost it's mind.

    Rob
     
    radialman, Jan 14, 2007
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Could be defective. You might want to try deleting you ide drivers.
     
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    I have a new drive on the way from Acer. Thanks for the help.

    Rob
     
    radialman, Jan 15, 2007
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