Re: cd drive

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jonny11 wrote:
did work only bought ir 3 month ago

"smlunatick" wrote:

You have a DVD drive instead of a CD drive/ CD Drives were never able
to play DVDs.

DVD drives have two lasers. One for read DVD medias and the other for
CDs. If you can not read CDs but still able to read DVDs, this usually
means that the CD laser is no longer working. You will need to replace
the drive.


jonny11 wrote:
can anyone HELP!!!!!!. my cd drive does not play audio or cd-roms the only
thing it will play is dvd's. i loked in the evene viewer and giving me this
message

Cdrom The device, \Device\CdRom1, has a bad block

there probably is a way to solve this, anyone with and advise i would be
most grateful;-)

thankyou the more help the better



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