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John

 posted on 2nd Oct 06 at 01:08

I was just about to add except pcworld but apparently not.

pcworld


John

 posted on 2nd Oct 06 at 01:07

ebuyer or any local pc shop.
30 is expensive for one these days.


Brett

 posted on 2nd Oct 06 at 00:58

it does get quite a bit of use :lol:

Where can I get one from for £30 Allan :boggle:


John

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 17:02

Dvd-rws are always burning out.
Don't seem to have very long lifes at all.


_Allan_

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 12:09

quote:
Originally posted by abdus
remove the drive and try it in another pc..

if it still does it then definitely it's the dvd drive


Yep get another drive and try it in your PC. My Compaq after about a year did this. However it would only burn DVDs and not CD-RWs etc. Was a laser problem but I only had to return the DVD drive.

In any case you can get a 16x dual layer drive DVD+- / CD drive for about £30.

If you can't be bothered sending it back :)

[Edited on 01-10-2006 by _Allan_]


abdus

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 11:24

remove the drive and try it in another pc..

if it still does it then definitely it's the dvd drive


Brett

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 11:00

I do't really want to do that. I've got loads of gear on here now that I don't want to lose, also don't want Mr.Dell rooting round it :|


Aaron

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 10:59

You should have got some sort of restore cd with the computer...with most companies like Hp, Dell etc they give you a cd that you put in and boot from, then it will set your machine back to the way it was the day you got it

[Edited on 01-10-2006 by Aj.]


Brett

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 10:53

quote:
Originally posted by abdus
what kind of warranty you have?

on-site?


Return to base :(

AJ: What do yuo mean :boggle:


abdus

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 10:45

what kind of warranty you have?

on-site?


Aaron

 posted on 1st Oct 06 at 10:41

Would it be a problem to do a factory rebuild from the cd?


Brett

 Icon depicting mood of post posted on 1st Oct 06 at 10:32

My Computer is only 6 months old. It's a Dell.

There's something funny with my DVD-+R/RW drive.

Before I went on holiday last week, it decided it'd no longer recognise DVD-R Discs and would only write to DVD+R & CD-R discs.

Now it's being even more of a turd and will only burn to DVD+R discs....not even CD-R's now!! :mad:

It's not like it just won't burn them, if i put them in the drive it won't even recognise the disc at all, yet it'll still recognise DVD+R's :boggle:

I've tried the obvious like installing new drivers and rolling back the machine to when it worked properly, but no joy :(

It is still under warranty but Dell want me to send them my entire machine, which I really don't want to do.

Anyone else experienced similar and overcome the problem?
If I think back, it started to go wrong when I installed a virtual CD Drive, i've since uninstalled that tho.