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DVD has stopped working

Aug 17, 2009 3:46AM PDT

I have an Emachine T5224 runing Vista. I've used the DVD+-R/W / CD-R/W before but can not remember the last time. Anyway I've bought a new camera and a CD came with it to show me the functions, Oh ya that was the last time I used it so thats 2-3 months ago. So now I want to adjust it to night shots and put the disc in and nothing happens. What do I have to do to get it working again. Thanks

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Aug 17, 2009 10:19PM PDT

Do the obvious and clean the drive. Use a CD cleaner and a can of compressed air to be rid of dust bunnies. Infrequent use can cause such problems. Excluding any other cause, is there any error displayed? Try another disc like a music one, what are the results. Make a "bootable live Linux disc" gotten from a dist. website. Make the bootable from the .ISO file, use a friend's system or another to do so. Once done and proved it works, then mount on your system DVD drive. Reboot and provided the drive is the 1st bootable device, it will try to boot showing it has been accessed. Enter the bios to verify the boot sequence, change if need be and save upon exiting. Do *all* of the above, come back with results.

tada -----Willy Happy

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Aug 17, 2009 11:59PM PDT

Does the drive appear in MY COMPUTER? That would be the first thing to look at, if it doesn't, look in DEVICE MANAGER and see if it shows in the hardware list, if not, there are some issues, likely disappeared software drivers or other HDWE issues.

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Aug 18, 2009 2:49AM PDT

I found the DVD/CD-rom in Device manager and this is what it says.

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Again any help would be great. thanks

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I know this one. Easy to fix.
Aug 18, 2009 3:25AM PDT
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Aug 18, 2009 4:28AM PDT

In the O/S vista how do I find run as in Start Run type REGEDIT. I can't seem to locate is setup

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Try any of these answers.
Aug 18, 2009 5:29AM PDT
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Aug 18, 2009 6:15AM PDT

I want to thank all who helped me with my DVD problem especially R Profitt. I now have the DVD working and can again play my Neil Young CD...Thanks again guys you are the best