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    CDR's no longer read on DVD drive!!! (I use m1530)

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by subheight640, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. subheight640

    subheight640 Notebook Geek

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    Hey something really weird happened to my m1530 computer. My TEAC DVD+-RW DDVW28SLC no longer reads any CDR/W discs! It reads DVD's and CD's fine. I've tested a couple CDR discs that work on my friend's computer but not mine. Anybody ever experience this before? Anybody have any suggestions?
     
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  2. Persnickety

    Persnickety Notebook Evangelist

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    The only suggestion I have is read this thread:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=370665

    He had a similar problem. Around that time, yet another bloke also posted a thread, but I can't seem to find it to check if that too was with a Dell M1530, because if so, it seems something is worth delving deeper into.
     
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  3. subheight640

    subheight640 Notebook Geek

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    i don't think that is related. For some reason my drive can read some disks but not others. Strange huh.
     
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  4. Persnickety

    Persnickety Notebook Evangelist

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    As could his, so I don't think it's that strange.
     
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    subheight640 Notebook Geek

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    Oh sorry my bad. My poor reading skills. Skimmed that post too fast.
     
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    callanish Notebook Consultant

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    Might be worth trying a cleaner. Even though my setup is an M1330 with the Matash*ta drive, mine can read retail DVD's, retail CD's, but nothing else and just like his system, It'll start to burn but fail. I'm about to try the disc cleaner option since I have nothing to lose and if all else fails, looks like I'll be taking the whole notebook apart to replace it with another drive.
     
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    Yo Persnickety, callanish: thanks for the great advice. I had spent a couple hours on the phone with some useless Dell techs and they wanted me to reformat my whole computer. I tried your ideas, I got a friends cleaner CD and now everything works great.

    Thanks for the help!
     
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    Persnickety Notebook Evangelist

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    No problem. Glad you got it working :)
     
    Persnickety, Apr 12, 2009
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