-=PCTechTalk=- Re: CD ROM Drive-Update
- From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:12:43 -0600
Radio Shack did not have a cleaner with little brushes and the young lady
waiting on us did not seem very knowledgeable. We went to Office Max and
found a young man who works on computers but his first suggestion was to use
compressed air. Told him I had been there and done that and it did not
help. He found a Memorex CD/DVD OpticDisc with little brushes. Instructions
were just insert disk and press play so I opened it in Windows Media player
and it had instructions on the disk. Seems it was designed to clean and
then improve quality of music CD's. Nevertheless I ran it until it said
cleaning was complete and I could press stop without doing harm. I ran it
only once and then started putting in GCF cd's and managed to get through
disk 5 and on disk 6 I got the error message. Really disappointing as I was
beginning to think I was home free.
I ran the cleaner a couple more times and tried again. This time it errored
on the first disk and has done so ever since even after multiple cleanings.
I have arranged with a friend to pick these disks up after Church Sunday and
take them to her home and try to install them. She has XP and has the
space. I am wondering though if I am wasting her time? It sure looks like
to me the problem is with my optical drive but I don't know what else to do
to try to fix it.
I am about to throw in the towel and call my local tech and request a new
drive (both CD and DVD).
Sandi
---- Original Message -----
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:39 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: CD ROM Drive-Update
> Sandi,
> Well, it only tells me that cleaning the disks didn't fix this
> particular problem. I suppose the jury won't be back from full
> deliberation
> until you're able to run a cleaning disk through that drive and try it
> with
> a cleaner lens. :O)
>
> Peace,
> GMan
> http://reddit.com
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
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