cant burn cd's and dvd rom drive wont open manually

[kyle]

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big problem guys. My bro has a windows 98SE with a cd-rw and dvd drive. he
could burn cd's and everything. now all of a sudden he cant burn cd's and
when he presses the open button for the dvd drive it doesnt open. ive tried
goin into device manager and everything. any 1 kno how to solve this problem?

 

[Guest]

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"Kyle" <Kyle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:906B9D51-0790-438F-9A73-47CCE1DB77B3@microsoft.com...
> big problem guys. My bro has a windows 98SE with a cd-rw and dvd drive. he
> could burn cd's and everything. now all of a sudden he cant burn cd's and
> when he presses the open button for the dvd drive it doesnt open. ive
tried
> goin into device manager and everything. any 1 kno how to solve this
problem?

presuming that both these units are on the same IDE cable try swapping it
first, this is a quick and simple way of identifying/eliminating one
possible problem.

Post back results

B

 

[kyle]

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hey brushes i may be a super smart wiz but im only 13 so i dont kno how to
swap them can u instruct me do i use device manager?


"brushes" wrote:

>
> "Kyle" <Kyle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:906B9D51-0790-438F-9A73-47CCE1DB77B3@microsoft.com...
> > big problem guys. My bro has a windows 98SE with a cd-rw and dvd drive. he
> > could burn cd's and everything. now all of a sudden he cant burn cd's and
> > when he presses the open button for the dvd drive it doesnt open. ive
> tried
> > goin into device manager and everything. any 1 kno how to solve this
> problem?
>
> presuming that both these units are on the same IDE cable try swapping it
> first, this is a quick and simple way of identifying/eliminating one
> possible problem.
>
> Post back results
>
> B
>
>
>