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    faulty DVD drive again?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by swellfella, Mar 23, 2007.

  1. swellfella

    swellfella Newbie

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    My drive recently quit working. Put a disc in and get a dialog box regarding the disc's format. I searched the forum and found a bunch of posts regarding faulty drives. So I'm pretty sure that's what's happening here. But one final question before I purchase another one on ebay:

    1) If the device manager list the device (DVD Toshiba) as present and working and 2) you right click and the eject option is functioning but every DVD and non-DVD refusals to play, saying the disc needs formatting or cannot be formated, can the problem still be a faulty device inspite of these other varibles?

    ...additionally no other right-click option functions, ie, explore, open, etc.
     
    swellfella, Mar 23, 2007
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  2. WackyT

    WackyT Notebook Deity

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    You don't happen to have Nero's InCD running, do you?
     
    WackyT, Mar 23, 2007
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  3. swellfella

    swellfella Newbie

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    No, I don't. I take it the thing's ready for the drive-bone yard. Thanks, and sorry 'bout the delay.
     
    swellfella, Apr 7, 2007
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