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    TravelMate 5510 losing DVD Drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by paulhooters, Oct 6, 2008.

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    I have been having an intermittant problem over the last six months or so. I have a Travelmate 5510 running Windows xp (service pack 3). I keep losing the DVD drive. The drive is not appearing in the start up scripts. It has been back to Acer who say it is not a hardware problem, it is probably a software conflict.

    The only way I can get the drive back is to do the Alt F10 at start up and reset to the factory defaults. This wipes all my data from the C: drive and, quite frankly, this is starting to irritate me big time.

    I thought I had discovered what was causing it as it only seemed to happen when I put an external hard drive into the USB, but I have not done so since my last reset and the DVD drive stayed with me for one whole day!

    Anyone had anything like this happen to them? Any advice? Please!!
     
    paulhooters, Oct 6, 2008
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