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To: combjelly who wrote (264848)	12/16/2005 8:56:12 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573207

The CS disc is OK - at least it was getting read a day or two ago. The PC is almost new (~6 months), so it seems a bit early to have failure. Id see a D drive, but can't get anything to appear in it. Any other ideas? I guess I need to take it to the shop.... How can I tell if it is an optical drive or not?

To: combjelly who wrote (264848)	12/16/2005 1:14:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573207

"How can I try to have my PC recognize the DVD-CD-RW drive again (it seems to have vanished)?" If you have a D: drive, it is recognized, else the icon wouldn't show up. If you aren't getting an error telling you there isn't any media in the drive, then the drive is reporting the media, just not reading the contents. It could be that the disk is bad or your drive has died. Optical drives tend to do that in my experience... Is it possible the CD is full? When I would fill up a floppie in computer lab, the PC would refuse more downloads but didn't explain why.....it expected me to understand. Could that be happening to Elroy's computer? ted