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    Cannot Load CD In My New Studio 1555

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DellsBells, Jul 10, 2009.

  1. DellsBells

    DellsBells Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought an MP3 player (Ativa Model #AT-MP400) which came with one of those small CD's which I cannot shove into my slot load without jamming it up. Are there any cures? Thanks
     
    DellsBells, Jul 10, 2009
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  2. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Is something physically blocking the slot?

    Silly question, but you're sure you don't already have a disk in there? :p
     
    Mastershroom, Jul 11, 2009
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    junctioned Notebook Consultant

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    Shroom, i think he means those like gamecube cds. Since studio1555 doesn't have like those classic slot trays, is there a way to put those "gamecube" type discs in without it rejecting it?
     
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  4. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Oh, you mean those mini-disk things?

    These slot-load drives aren't designed to work with those, and getting into the slot may damage the drive.
     
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    Yeah, that's what I thought too. I hope the Thread opener didn't damage his NEW studio1555 with that experiment. I think society is filtering those discs out; they were so like early 2000's..haha.
     
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  6. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    To this day I have never ever used one in my life.

    That reminds me of Zip drives...those chunky floppy-like things that were big years ago. :p
     
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    Ah, Iomega Zip Drives. Those were simpler times.
     
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  8. junctioned

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    I have a feeling you're not talking about floppy drives, right?? (i'm super non-computer tech guy)
     
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  9. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Yeah, Zip drives were a similar concept, and back in 1998 everybody thought that they would wipe floppies off the map.

    Turns out everyone forgot about Zip drives by 2003.
     
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    well i just googled it; and it looks like a large floppy cartridge thing. Those things never work; its like how PS discs beat nintendo cartridges.

    I guess the CD killed both floppys/zip drives. (I swear, i have NEVER heard of zip drives in my life; and i'm not THAT young lol)
     
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  11. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Yeah, they never really were that mainstream. If my mother's boyfriend didn't own one, I'd never have heard of them.
     
    Mastershroom, Jul 11, 2009
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    dont forget the actual Mini-disc... That was supposed to take over the CD too.... Sony was the only one who really made a market for those things...

    I remember the 3.5inch floppys... they were actually floppy.
    Hell... I still remember the first digital camera i used was a sony that used 1.44mb floppy discs.... Can you even imagine how that would work now???

    Edit: Oh and to relate this to the original topic... check the manufactures website to see if there is software you can just download. Normally the software is available online as well as on the disc.
     
    Stabilo7, Jul 11, 2009
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  13. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    I thought the 3.5" floppies were the hard ones. The actual floppy ones were 5.25" or something, right?
     
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    The 3.5's were always called floppies, I remember when they first started coming out and supplanting the commonplace 5.25" drives.

    3.5" media consisted of a flexible media encased in a hard plastic enclosure. 5.25" discs were flexible media in a less flexible enclosure. Even older were the 8" floppy discs but they predated the early Apple II and first IBM PC computers back in the early 1980's.

    Back to the OP's issue/question. The slot-load drive does not support the smaller discs.
     
    Lew, Jul 11, 2009
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    Ah yes... my bad... the 5.25" floppys... 3.5" were the standard 1.44mb floppy discs.
     
    Stabilo7, Jul 11, 2009
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