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    Optical drive on AR11S stopped working?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by b|lly, Dec 23, 2008.

  1. b|lly

    b|lly Notebook Deity

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    Hello.

    I have a friends laptop here, whos optical drive stopped working. He is a rather "noob" and he does not know much about computrs, so I dont know what he was messing with.

    But if I check the control panel it seems like this:

    http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2159/cddriveld9.jpg

    Both both devices it says driver is not installed corectly, try to reinstall it. But that does not help.

    Anything I could do?
     
    b|lly, Dec 23, 2008
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    Try deleting the driver altogether then restart windows. Maybe it will be recognized when windows restarts.
     
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    No go, it says "failed", but it does start to install the driver...
     
    b|lly, Dec 23, 2008
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