The vendors are producing short lived drives that have people just like you spending days, months trying drivers, reloading the OS and more.
Shortcircuit your time loss and try a new drive.
Bob
The problem that I have is concerning my CD drives. I have a Packard
Bell computer and the first drive came with the computer and is a
Goldstar CD-Rom-CRD-8240B and the second I installed a couple of years
ago and is a Toshiba DVD-Rom SD-R1002. The problem is that neither of
these drives seem to be reading any of the CD's that I place into
them.
What I have done so far is firstly to install new drivers from them by
using drivers-guide.com. I even deleted the drives from from the
settings device manager in the hope that the computer would recognise
them on re-booting and ask whether I wanted to install them but this
wasn't the case. When I looked in the settings device manager again it
showed them as still being there.
The Goldstar CD drive does not seem to be showing as being read. There
also appear to be 4 letter drives d,e,f&g when there are only two.
When the Toshiba drive is attempting to be read whether in 'my
computer' or internet explorer etc it just hangs.
Someone may suggest that I should reinstall them from the Windows CD's
that I have. The problem is that since this is a Packard Bell
computer, this would reformat the hard drive. I have far, far, far too
much stuff on there to do this.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.

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