Additionally what happeneds when you put a CD in the computer? How does the Cd get spun?
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Compact discs are made from a 1.2 mm thick disc of polycarbonate plastic coated with a much thinner layer of Super Purity Aluminium (or rarely, gold, used for its data longevity, such as in some limited-edition audiophile CDs) layer which is protected by a film of lacquer. The lacquer can be printed with a label. Common printing methods for compact discs are silkscreening and offset printing. \n\nThe information on a standard CD is encoded as a spiral track of pits moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer. (The areas between pits are known as lands.) Each pit is approximately 100 nm deep by 500 nm wide, and varies from 850 nm to 3.5 μm long. The spacing between the tracks is 1.6 μm. To grasp the scale of the pits and land of a CD, if the disc is enlarged to the size of a stadium, a pit would be approximately the size of a grain of sand. The spiral begins at the center of the disc and proceeds outwards to the edge, which allows the different size formats available.\n\nPits are much closer to the label side of a disc so that defects and dirt on the clear side can be out of focus during playback. Discs are consequently much easier to ruin by scratching the label side, whereas clear-side scratches can be repaired by refilling them with plastic of similar index of refraction.
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Even if it's brand new it could be broken. My friend is a PC tech, and it happens to him alot. He just grabs a new one off the shelf and it's fine. Do you have another CD ROM drive you could put in there just to see if that one works.\n\nAlso Things just don't stop working for the hell of it. So if it did work before, then it's probably broken.
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Try blowing some compressed air in the cd burner/player, there may be some dust that got in there during shipping.  Also, make sure your CD's are clean.
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The answer is really nothing if the hard drive fails completely.  Best solution is to call the manufacture and order the CD's it may cost you $30 but it is well worth it.  You can also clone the drive over to another drive but this would require some computer knowledge on what to do.
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First you should check that its actually the CD ROM drive that is bad and not the actual CD.  Have you tried using other CD's in the drive?\n\nThen I would unplug the power from your system open up the box and ensure that the power cord and bus are still firmly connected (unlikely that they are become disconnected but you might as well check)\n\nIf none of those did the trick, then I would purchase a new one.  They are super easy to install.
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do you mean rip the music onto your computer, burn the music onto another CD, or remove a song from a CD that you just burned? \n\nYou cannot remove music from the actual CD, btw. Once it's there it's there for good. Try getting a new blank CD
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most likely your cd is bad, give it a good cleaning the try again, then buy a new cd
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I'm no expert on how to fix computers, but if your CD is still jammed in there, look for the manual release. There should be a tiny hole on or near your CD tray; stick a pin or something slender in there and your tray should open.
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It's very likely you CD drive has worn out or broke down. I would get a new one, you can get them very cheap, even a DVD burner drive. Try TigerDirect.
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-load the cd\n-go to my computer\n-find cd drive\n-delete everything.. or reformat it\n-use it again!! \n*it really depends on the cd ur using.. is it an empty one u bought or what? \nhope it helps =)
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Relax.  When you open the tray you will see that there is a smaller 'inset' to accommodate the mini-CD.  It will rest inside this recess.  When you eject the disk, it will still be there.  \nWARNING; do not use mini-CDs in frontloading car stereos!
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It can be a couple of things.\n\nLikely culprits?:\n1. the cooling fan.  Check for buildup on the rear fan, use canned air to clean.\n\n2. The Processor fan. Look on the motherboard and watch the little cooling fan. Clean with canned air or replace.\n\n3. A warped CD in the cdrom drive. When PCs start they spin the drive. make sure it's empty.\n\n4. A heavily fragmented hard drive. If the drive is fairly full the drive has to look all over the place for your files. Delete all uneeded files and defrag the drive 2-3 times.\n\nif your PC is losing the time, that is due to a bad motherboard battery. If it's under a year old, it should be under warranty.
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Wow, those are a lot of good questions...\n\nO-K.\n1)What kind of problems might occur if you tried to use an older CD-ROM drive or a CD player to play a CD-R or a CD-RW disk?\n\nSome older drives can't recognize a CD-R or CD-RW.\nThe best bet is that when you are "burning a CD-R or CD-RW that you will use on an older drive (or player), make sure to finalize or "Close" the CD. Older drives can't read a CD that is still "Open". The only problem with this is that once the CD is closed, you can't write to it any more.\n\n2)On a CD disk, is data written in concentric circles or in a continous spiral trak?\n\nA combination of both.\nA CD burner starts on the most inside trak and writes a complete circle until it finds the begining of the circle, then it moves up  one space and writes another circle, working its way toward the outside. You can tell this by looking at different CDs that you have burned. The ones with more data will have more burned area toward the outside of the disk.\n\n3) Can CD hold videoa data?(Explamation)\n\nYes, but not in "DVD" format.\nYou can copy any type of media file to a CD (mpeg, mov, avi, wmv, whatever) as data, but to play these files, you would have to open the files on you PC with a media player.\nBUT... You can use some files (mpeg2 / mpeg4, I believe?)\nto create a VIDEO-CD that will play on most DVD players.\nA VIDEO-CD in NOT a DVD, and it does not require a DVD+R to be created. You can burn a VIDEO-CD on to a regular writable CD.\n\n4) What does the X factor of a drive indicate? What is the specification of oneX?\n\nThe X factor, I like that!\nThe X stands for "times", like multiplication.\n1X = the absolute slowest.\n4X = 4 time "normal" speed.\n16X = 16 times "normal" speed\nAnd so on.\nObviously, the higher the"X Factor", the faster the drive will \nRead / Write / Erase-ReWrite.\n\nBy the way...\n1x for a CD means 150 KB per second\n1x for a DVD = 1.35 MB per second\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nGood Luck, and Happy Surfing!
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You know that there are usually files that are installed elsewhere.  There are also changes to the registry.  Even if you copy the programs over, I doubt they will run.  You best bet is to get the CD's they were installed from, if they were.
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The unit does have a different head for CD so it is possible for one to go bad and the other stay working.\n\nIf you won't read or write and you have tried different media my guess is your CD head is bad. The writers are a throw away item now. They are so cheap you don't want to fix them.
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So you are saying that E is your CD-rom and F is showing the contents of the CD rom again? CD rom is supposed to be read only.\n\n============================================================\nDid you install from Windows XP distribution CD or the recovery CD provided by the hardware manufacturer. Recovery CDs sometimes create an image of the drive and makes it read only.
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cracked CD's can damage your CD Drive..