[pchelpers] Re: CDRom not working
- From: Gail Armstrong <gail.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:37:52 +1200
Thanks, will get onto that one. Gail
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[mailto:pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Durham
Sent: Friday, 18 April 2003 10:57 a.m.
To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: CDRom not working
Is it possible that during this internal re-arrangement the ribbon cable
to the CD was slightly dislodged? If so, it could account for the
problem.
If you go into system settings are there any warning symbols showing
there?
Gail Armstrong wrote:
> =
> Can anyone give simple advice to fix a problem I have with my Hewlett
> Packard Goldstar F drive cdrom. My Device Manager says it is
> working,
> but it will not read anything, the error message being =93please
insert=
> disk=94 . I have a H.P. cdwriter (E drive) and the kids play their
> games
> on this and I install software on it too. I can live with this but
> now I want to do some copying, have Prassi software and of course
> can=92t
> use the top F drive to read from. I had trouble with my 3 =BD floppy
> disk too, this had same error message, a bit of rearranging inside and
> it now works. If worse comes to worse new drives are now only about
> $70.00. I recently had a clean install of XP, but can=92t remember if
=
F
> drive was not working then. Is there any way to configure things, I
> have gone to Microsoft help but can=92t negotiate the options.
> Computer
> 6 years old and still going well. Any help??? Cheers and happy
> Easter.
> Gail
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