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    P-172X FX DVD/CD Drive Issue

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by BlackSheep5, Apr 24, 2009.

  1. BlackSheep5

    BlackSheep5 Notebook Consultant

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    I am having an issue with reading and burning cd's and dvd's. It worked fine before with the same disc I am trying now. I have used different programs also.

    When I burn a disc, it says it is finished but the disc is blank.

    I looked in "Event Viewer" and there are quite a few events (78 right now) with

    "The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block."

    Does this mean my drive is bad?
     
    BlackSheep5, Apr 24, 2009
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  2. Kamin_Majere

    Kamin_Majere =][= Ordo Hereticus

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    First try to uninstall and then reinstall your optical drives drivers.

    have you recently switched media? Some optical drives go honky if you use a CD/DVD dics they dont like.

    Worse case senerio the drive is somehow bad, but thats usually not a big deal CD/DVD readers/writers in PATA are pretty cheap and its a very easy swap out.

    But i would try the drivers first
     
    Kamin_Majere, Apr 24, 2009
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  3. BlackSheep5

    BlackSheep5 Notebook Consultant

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    Already uninstalled and reinstalled, I am using the same disks out of the same package I used before and they worked fine.
     
    BlackSheep5, Apr 25, 2009
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