How can I repair the tray-loading mechanism of my CD-RW drive?
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Curious, why try cleaning the lens? Were you having difficulties reading discs?\n\nI'd suggest getting a new CD drive. DVD/CD burners are inexpensive. See source link.
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Make sure your drivers are updated, make sure the CD is clean, make sure the media is good, try another cd, buy a new CD.\n\nSorry, I wish I could be more help.
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Driver not there - it's not loaded properly - restart the computer\n\nMalfunction - yes you drive is too old to do the work - replace the drive\n\nCommunication problem - data or power cable is loose - open the case and press the 2 ends firmly together\n\nBad files - that happened when you burnt your disc - you have to be sure you have the back-up files to burn another one/or the format of your disc is not readable by your CD-ROM drive - some brands are more powerful to read more formats than the others\n\nHardware not connected??? Did you map your drive properly?\n\nYou should read this first (don't worry, it CAN be fixed easily)\n\nhttp://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/cd/recogDriver-c.html\nhttp://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/l0604/77l04/77l04.asp&guid=\n\n... and if you still have a problem just go to microsoft.com and do a search like "CD-ROM issue" "unreadable CDs"
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Your cd drive has failed. Replace it.\n\nBest looking at DVD +- RW's as they are proving more stable than CD writers.
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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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If the paper clip trick doesn't work, then I would either try the paper clip trick again or (if I had already done that) I would just take the cover off and then try to open it from there. If you aren't getting a power light from the CD-ROM than it is most likely dead.\n\nP.S. If this cd-rom drive is under warranty, DO NOT take it apart.
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try to reinstall windows .. or format the hard disk and install a fresh copy
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sometimes there is a small hole on cd and dvd players where you can stick a pen in and the tray will open you will have to have a real close look at it thou.\n\nHope this works for u
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Try using other free cables for the CD-RW\nboth IDE, and Power cables\n\nor maybe it is something wrong with the master/slave setting\n\ndunno u didn't give much detail
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Reformat and reload you hard drive.\n\nCoach
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best thing to do is get a full .iso of cd then mount that thru alcohol 120 then play\ntry mounting the main .exe file with the w3 icon
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Hi, I would try the following...\n\n1. Delete mso cache\n2. Turn off antivirus software\n3. Open the drive by exploring it and then drag the entire contents of the disk to your desktop(should take a little while).(may want to put it in its own folder)\n4. Run setup.exe or autorun from your desktop instead of pulling it from the cd drive.\n5. Use custom setup and choose which apps you want. Don't use auto full install.\n\nedit perhaps and let us know if it worked.\n\nhope that helps\nNigel\n\n\nEdit: It seems, based on your error, that the installer is looking in the wrong place for the file.\n\nMost people get a CRC error if the disk is bad.  Sounds like a bug in winpoop.  That is all I could dig up on the matter.\n\nOn side note, it happens quite often to folks.
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yo boobooed\nthe easiest fix, is to boot from your windows xp cd, and when given options, the first time it asks, say intstall, the secon time say repair, it will do a non-destructive install and replace any bad or missing files or associations.\nYou could check in the recycle bin and if it is in there, restore it
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Replace the Hdd. This is the easiest solution.\nThere are other things to try but, it is best left to someone who already knows how to do it. IF you did, you would not be asking.
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Did you just delete or reformat?  If you have not reformatted the old slave drive, do so immediately.  I think that should do it.
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First try running a System Restore. If that doesn't work you will have to boot to the Windows CD and run a "repair installation".
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sounds like the CD drive button is broken. replace the CD Drive and see if that fixes it. \n\nIf a format didn't fix the issue its not a software issue. \n\n(how did you format with a broken CD drive? and if you have a second drive and it isn't open & close'n all the time, why would you assume a format would fix the problem withthe other drive?)