CD-RW drive is not working?
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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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Make sure your CD drive is set as a slave or secondary master drive in your BIOS, and also make sure that it's first in the boot sequence. If it can't detect the drive, then there's a hardware problem with the CD drive itself. If you can get that to work, then try using the Repair feature on the XP install CD. If that doesn't work, then just reinstall Windows.
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The drive went dead or the IDE cable or 12V cable became loose and needs to reattached.\n\nEither way, first enter 'Setup' during boot to check whether the drive is recognized.  Press F12 or 'Delete' during boot.  Browse around and look to see if the CDROM shows up in your IDE configuration.\n\nIf it doesn't then you have to open up the computer.  Open it up by taking out the screws in the back and remove one or both side panels (or the top in the case of some older computers).\n\n1) Pull the power cord off the back of the computer.  Don't want to shock anything...\n\n2) Look for the cables that are attached to the CDROM drive.  There should be two: 1 ribbon cable gray or black and another cable with a white connector having 4 female receptacles (what a dream!).  \n\n3) Try the power cable first.  It may be hard to detach so don't worry...  you won't break it.  Reattach it.  It only fits one way.\n\nReattach the plug to the computer and power up (don't touch anything).  Try the CDROM door (does the light go on?) Power down.\nIf not working:\n4) Pull off the ribbon cable (straight out - don't bend it down or up, shimmy it side to side gently).  Make sure you look for the red wire on the cable because this is #1 and needs to be reattached on the side closest to the power cable.\n5) Reattach the cable  by pushing it in straight and power up again.\n\nIf it doesn't work your CD-ROM is dead and needs to be replaced... $40.  By a DVD combo drive or a DVD writer this time.\n\nLook at the bright side! Now you know how to install it!!!\n\nI'm betting a cable is loose.\n\nOh and By the Way.  If you HD light is always on then it is looking for something or you don't have enough memory in your computer to run all the stuff that is trying to run at startup.  Defragment your hard drive and uninstall some programs before you try to fix the hardware.  You can do this from the Control Panel.
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leave it plugged in and run a full system scan with Fdisk (scandisk). you should be able to pick just that flash drive, but you should check all drives. check automatically fix errors then reboot.. You've probably got a currupt driver or missing dll.
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Usually you don't need adriver for an internal CD, DVD drives.\nIf your computer didn't recognize the drive, that another issue.\nagain is it internal or external?
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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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Go into Device Manager, uninstall the cdrom, then reboot. If that doesn't work, reinstall the drivers from the disk that came with the burner, or OS. If you don't have these disks, then download the drivers from the manufacturer's website. What's happening is that you might have corrupted drivers that may need to be reinstalled, or, replaced with newer ones. :)
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all the drive is no matter is cd or with rw or dvd or with rw, after you install it, reboot, see if light blink on drive during reboot, (if no, faulty drive) \nafter reboot, if hold alt and click my computer, \n(for xp) go to hardware tab and then device mgr button, \n(for w98) go to device mgr tab,\nif it show a normal cd drive icon(without red circle or question mark), then is a good install, at least cd tray can eject when choose from popup menu.\nif no icon, data cable, power cable and sound cable is installed, then the drive probably is faulty, replace it.
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you dont really need drivers in windows for a cd drive...  Are you sure the drive is working? Perhaps try it on another computer...
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Make sure the CD you are using is compatible with your CD-Burner.\nSome will only work with CD-R or CD+R. Most recent ones will take both and also CD+-R
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Try re-installing the drivers for the drive through the Device Manager in the Control Panel.\n\nIf you are unsure whether you have the drivers go to the manufacturer website and search for your model.\n\nThen you sgould be able to download the drivers with instructions on installation.
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no option dude got to have the cd\nor go to a different system with internet down the drivers from internet and use floppy to save the file in ur system and restart
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If you can run the cd from a dos prompt, go to the winnt directory and run setup from there.  Good luck
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Try download and install the latest driver for your combo drive
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1. use cd lens cleaner \n2. try using other cds\n3. as it is cd/dvd rw Try to write
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try going to start >run and type in this excatly SFC /SCANNOW that is sfc space/scannow.let it do a systom file check..if it ask for the windows recovery cd insert it into the cd rom
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windows should able to recognize the drive without any driver, but if yours is special, see if you got any luck with this site\nhttp://www.driverguide.com