My four month old Dimension E510 has a 48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive. Both DVDs and CDs worked fine until recently. Now, when any type of DVD (movie or software) is put in the drive, the drive makes a churning noise and the DVD is not read. The drive still works fine with CDs and there is no...

I am having a problem backing up to my CD/ RW & DVD/RW drives. The program I now have "RecordNow", that came with my Dell, will partially do the job, but would like a full backup program that will overwrite the existing files on the CD. Brian K. in one of my earlier posts sent me a link to two...

I have a Dell Dimension 4400. I am unable to record data files to my CD. I bought the PC with a CD-RW. Start-My Computer-CD drive shows as the name: 'CD Drive (D:)' and a cd-r icon is what it's showing is in there. (My blank Maxell CD-R.) Right click on cd-r icon. Click on properties. 5 tabs show...

Hi, Sorry this a bit off the topic here. I was wondering what programs can format CD-RW so that it can be read by Windows as a regular CD disk. I have been using Roxio's Easy CD 5 that came with Dell, but once I format a CD-RW and wrote files on to it, it couldn't be read by other Windows...

I have a Dell 8200 desktop with a GCE-8400B CD-RW drive I use for backup. When I try to copy larger files (28+megs) from the C drive, it will start the transfer, then hang. When the hang occurs, I try to end the "copy" task to get out of it, but it will not work. I can't unload the cd or do...

I am unable to use the write-record feature of my CD. My PC is a Dell Dimension 4400. Windows XP Home Edition version 5.1.2600 When the CD is inserted and closed you see the CD activity light starts blinking non-stop. This goes on about 2 or 3 minutes and then the CD ejects itself. When I open My...

All of a sudden my CD/DVD +R drive won't work. When I try to read a previously created disk I cannot. I hear the drive spinning but nothing happens. When I try to write to a new disk it ejects the disk and tells me to put in a compatible disk. I'm using the same disks I've been using for months. I...

OEM supplied Roxio CD/DVD bruner contains lots of crap. I need a freeware to burn CD/DVD. What is your recommendation?

So my drive has died after 2yrs use, it still spins and is recognised by BIOS and windows. I've used a replacement which works but its not mine to keep. Do I now throw it in the bin?

I have an Inspiron 5150 CD/DVD Combo drive I'd like to replace. The drive is a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N. Has anyone done this? Any suggestions as to a make & model replacement? I'd prefer to replace it with a DVD burner combo...

Have an Optiplex and am having issues with cd burner. It's fine when I try to burn through windows xp, but it won't do anything in Roxio or Nero. In Roxio, it says no recorder is available. In Nero, the only recorder listed is the image recorder. I have Nero on another computer and it lists...

Latitude E5400, is the CD/DVD drive a USB device? Two symptoms: 1. The drive shows up as E: rather than D:. If you add an external HD to a USB port, the external drive shows up as D:, so it's not as if the letter is otherwise occupied. 2. The machine spontaneously said New Hardware

I have been having problems opening, and/ or ejecting from my cd/dvd drive. It will usually open after multiple pressings of the eject button. But it is most annoying. Has anyone else had this problem? or know of a fix Below are my system highlights, Thank you for your help Operating System ...

I have a Dell 4600 computer with a NECDVD+RWND-2100 DVD drive. I have never burned a cd or dvd but I would like to give it a try.My question is what type disks do I use to make a cd or dvd or back up files? Under My Computer for the dvd it reads as DVD/CD-RW. Under properties it reads...

Installed on my Dell dimension 2400, is a cd rom and a dvd/rw, (win xp home) When i click open MY COMPUTER , there are Under devices with removable storage 1 Dvd/rw icon, as well as 2 cd rom drive icons, Anybody know how to remove the unwanted cd icon ? It appeared there after the dvd was...

Have a 2 + year 8400 and the D drive CD(Samsung) seems to be dying...some times it plays sometimes it doesnt...its just a read only.. I want to replace it with a CD/DVDRW internal and would like any recommendation as to brand. I know newegg has a bunch quite cheap but thought I would ask here...

I'm running a Dimension 5150C. Can anyone address this problem? The issue description is below, as well as a summary of my system information. I have uninstalled Easy CD Creator, re-installed Windows Media Player, and re-installed RealJukebox (the latest versions). I have looked for more recent...

I own an optiplex 200MM with 15Go / 128 Mo First time I tried to install knoppix on my HD , I lost the CDRom reader.I was obliged to plug my CDRom on first IDE device , with the HD. It worked. I tried again to install this afternoon , and again my CDrom is not recognized. When I boot on W98 floppy...

Hi, My CDROM isn't recognized now. It was before.I've probably done a mistake. My config:pentium 200 MMX optiplex dell. No boot problem (Type auto on second HD on second wire) No driver install problem (W98). When I do Y: under dos , I can go , but dir command shows a non readable disk! No icon...

Recently after rebooting my computer the CDROM has stopped working and the computer is detecting two CDROM devices, my HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N device, and also an AXV SCSI CDROM device. Both of them have exclamations and I can seem to make the cdrom work again....any ideas? I'm trying to...