While a firmware upgrade the comp. was not responding so I restarted the comp. .Eversince then my CD-RW drive hasen't been detected bythe comp.. It's using PATA Port.
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You should never restart while doing a firmware upgrade, it probably corrupted the CDRW bios. Check with the manufacturer and see if they have any bios recovery tools for it.
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If not even light is blinking on the drive when booting up pc, either your drive is totally dead need to be replaced or your power cable is not connected/providing the power needed to the drive.\nOpen you pc case and check it, check the data cable connecting to it too, try swapping power cable with harddrive etc.\nwhen reboot go to bios, your bios should able to recognize the cd drive when showing your harddrive.
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unless you've made changes to your system lately (i.e. reformatting, installed new software, etc.) it is probably a hardware failure and needs to be replaced.  You can see what device manger tells you about the status.  Right click on my computer, select manage, select, device manager, browse to your cd drive and see what it says about the device properties.
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You probably need to install the driver for the modem that should have come with it on a CD.  If it is a new modem, the install should be relatively straight-forward.
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Maybe you need a new CD or DVD ROM Drive. If you want, you can buy CD-RW drive or DVD-/+RW drive (Also burn CD)\n\nPlus, they not disk they disc like CD or DVD!\n\nDisk mean like floppy disk or hard drive
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Try with a normal Data CD first(not a CDR). A pressed CD is much more accurate than a CDR and will be easier for the drive to read (most of the time). If it does read then you may wish to try and clean the dive using a CD/DVD cleaner. You may be lucky. if it doesn't read you may want to check those cables again and then use the cleaner but you are unlikely to have much luck if it's not  a silly thing with the cables. Dont bother trying to get it fixed or generally fiddling about just get another from any one of the millions of Retail outlets such as Dabs and Aria ..etctec\n\nIve been repairing comps for 20 years and CD drives are too awkward and too cheap to fiddle with ...John
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there could be somthing wrong with the opening mechanizim... there should be a hole located in the CD drive... place a pin in this and it should open!
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Did you try to re-install the drivers? You probably have tried that. I have the exact thing that is wrong with my Sony PC, except on my Sony PC, I lost both CD & DVD devices--both are dead. I can only load the Recovery Disk from Sony & try to boot from there but it wants me to wipe everything out. I first need to back up before I go to such drastic measures. \n\nPS. I like above solution. In my case it didn't work but do try it. It probably will work for you since that is your error code.\n\nI don't have an answer yet, but the reason I answered here was to be able to let you know what to do when I get this ironed out. I might call Geeks on Call and if they repair & teach me something, I would be happy to share.\n\nSome thing I wanted to do. Contact the maker of the drives and get the files and download them & re-install. In my case, the CD & DVD drives do NOT have any support from the companies who made them. So, that path might be open to you. \n\nIf you have another working CD drive, can you reload or re-install drivers for the DVD? That is another avenue.\n\nLastly, maybe contact your PC maker and see if they can help you. My PC is four years old, so I didn't contact Sony. I was ready for a new PC, so I bought one. Eventually i will get the Sony fixed.\n\nNow, the reasons why you lost the DVD. Did you un-install some CD/DVD Creator or another third Party DVD software? I understand in my troubleshooting of my prob, I found out that one of these softwares upon uninstall as a bug disables XP from seeing the DVD. I uninstalled a CD program due to low disk space & I never figured that that would mess up my DVD/CD's. That was my problem.\n\nI hope that you can get it solved. If your PC company can supply you those drivers, I bet that you can solve this. In fact, I might even contact Sony for my own problem.\n\nGood luck!
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You can try to get the latest versions of the drivers & software on the net. Or you can call up your suplyer for some new disks. I recomend the first option.
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Try having a qualified technician check the wiring inside the computer between the hard disk and the controller on the motherboard.  This can be particularly flakey with SATA drives.
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Do a complete uninstall in the Hardware window and re-install. If that still doesn't work, it is possible that either the drive has died and must be replaced. That would be more likely than that the port on the motherboard has died, but that is possible as well as the not-likely ribbon cable failure.\n\nOne thing you might look at before replacing it is an IRQ conflict if you've added any hardware lately.
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has he got his bios set to boot from CD?\nIf the machines are the same make eg both compaq, it should be ok\nor use your CD and ring microsoft to activate.\nif the story is true, this too is ok\nif cd is broken - contact microsoft for replacement
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It is probably either misaligned or otherwise "hosed"...\n\nSince these drives are now inexpensive (around $30 or less) I would replace it either with another CDRW or, better yet, a DVDRW for about $50 or so!
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If any thing you need the mobo drivers! There are very few cdrom units that need a driver! They are all plug and play! I,m thinkin you need to reinstall the mobo drivers if the unit isnt seeing the cdrom or the cdrom itself is defunct!
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ok, to start with it is not your bios, it is not the cables, it is not the jumpers, if any of those were not detecting the drive, windows couuldn't find it in add new hardware, more than likely it is in your registry.\ncheck these tips here, I don't know your operating system or hardware configuration,so I can't be more specific in helping you, but the page might have the anwer\nhttp://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1218041&page=1
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Check the Device Manager and make sure you have the proper drivers installed. If your PC recognizes it, (or it doesn't) and it doesn't read a known good disk, the drive is bad. Replace! You can also go to 'My Computer' and make sure Windows recognizes it there.
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go to device manager if there is question mark for ur cd dvd drive means there is a problem regrding ur driver . u can solve it easily but if it not then u might have to change ur cd dvd drive.\n\ngud luck