my cd drive gets stuck.................inorder to eject the disk i have to press the eject button many times. Can anybody tell me how i can clean the drive.............cause i'm sure it is a mechanical thing...........please gimme as many details bout leaning it as possible.
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it would be better to just buy a new drive
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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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Try putting a floppy disk in the drive that you have used before and it worked last time you used it.  If it isn't recognized, it's possible that the drive itself may have gone bad.  Fortunately floppy drives are quite inexpensive now as it is considered an outdated technology.  I would, however, suggest finding another computer that has both a CD burner and a floppy drive, and using it to burn your files to a CD.  If it is the floppy drive that's broken, I'd suggest replacing it with a CD burner (they aren't very expensive anymore).  Floppy drives are pretty much obsolete, so if you want to keep your files for any length of time, you would be better off to go with more current technology.
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Scratch the surface of the CD with a sharp object.  Scuffing it on concrete is also very effective.  There are also shredders for CDs.  Don't use an ordinary paper shredder though!\n\nBTW, formatting a floppy wasn't a good way to delete data.  Until the floppy was overwritten, the data was still there.
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If you want to format a hard drive , first copy the essential files in a CD. Then start fomatting any drive.  I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
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Uh, oh.\n\nClicking sounds = very bad.\n\nThat means your hard disk actuator is fried.  You need to buy a new hard drive, and chances are very good you will not be able to save the data off the old one.\n\nI've heard that if you put a clicking hard drive in the freezer overnight it will work for 10-15 minutes - long enough to copy a few key files off, but I've never tried it myself.
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Have u tryed reinstalling your drivers for your cd burner..Go into your hardware section and click reinstall.. Also i have the same problem as my burner is Kaput...apparantly they DON'T last forever as i thought! lol
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well my first thought is....it over-heated and died.\n\nHD's produce heat, quite a bit of it actually, so it being in an external HD case, when it's meant to NOT be covered, probably caused the temp to rise and your HD to burn out, or it could just be normal  mal-function, and the drive could just be done.\n\nalso sometimes it's connectors etc....there are many things to troubleshoot when it comes to a HD not functioning properly
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Try using a lense cleaner. I had an HP cd-rw drive that did the same crap. It would never recognize a bured cd. Well, turns out, this particular CD Burner was made for HP by Samsung. I did a firmware and driver update, that helped alot. But I noticed that if the drive wasn't cleaned freaquently, it would not read burned cd's, or recognise blank ones. So first things, first, try just cleaning it.\n\nIf that doesn't fix it, I highly recomend replacing it!\nI've never had that great of luck with Samsung drives of any kind in a computer. \n\nI highly recomend drives made by LiteOn. They make a fantastic drives and they're very afordable.\n\nIf You want slightly better performance however, Toshiba makes a realy good drive as well. I highly recomend one of their DVD multi drives!\n\nFinaly, Pioneer! A little pricey, but not too bad. I've had a couple of their DVD rom drives. One thing I can say about the Pioneer drives is that they do much better with dirty and scratched Optical disks than most drives I've used. I don't know what their DVD burners cost now adays, but a strait up DVD-Rom shouldn't be more than 30 bucks!
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Ok ever think the hard drive might be bad? Maybe the cd-rom is messed up.Also legitimate copies of windows are suggested and burnt cd's are frowned upon.However that being said id look into the hard drive being damaged. Sounds to me like the boot sector of the disk may be damaged.
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Is it a floppy disk or a CD-ROM disk?\n\nIf it's a floppy, it's usually because the sliding cover bent outward. Try using something thin on the top and bottom of the disk (like the metal card slot covers) to compress the sliding cover back towards the floppy, pulling outward as you do it.\n\nIf it's a CD-ROM disk, just get yourself a paper clip, straighted it out and stick it in the tiny hole on the front of the drive. The drive bay will slide open a bit. Just pull it out the rest of the way.
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Don't just format your hard drive.  Wipe it using DBAN, see sources, or a similar tool.  Formatting, alone, will leave much recoverable information on your drive.\n\nAfter wiping, as the other posters have already said, format your drive and reinstall your operating system from the original CDs.
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If it's windows.\n\n\nYou need to run disk clean up. Click on My Computer and highlight the drive you want to clean. Do a right click and select properties. Run disk clean up.
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Boot off the system CD and reformat your hard drive - multiple pass and zero data. Use Disk Utility. Would take a good amount of time depending on your comps' speed but it will securely erase ur hard drive.\n\nYou will need to re-install the system (since EVERYTHING is erased) then the comp is good to go.
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Good day. Whew! lol Yeah if u keep burning and burning yeah the device may die especially if u are burning Cds to fast. How long u had the cd burner? if a long time, then it died most likely. Happens a lot u wudnt believe. Get a new one. Its cheap & simple to replace. Laterz
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Either the CD is faulty (perhaps it wasn't finalised correctly) or the drive is.\n\nTry a lens cleaning cd first (you can purchase this at most PC and electronics stores).  If that doesn't work, try the CD in another drive (maybe on another PC).  If you still can't read it, then the CD is faulty.
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Bad disk, cheap media, cd disk inserted when dvd settings selected or vice versa.  These are the usual reasons, check out the drive manufacturers website and see what they recommend.\n\nRegards EDD