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dvd/cd-rom burner will not work.

Started by suezy1 , Jul 28 2009 02:26 PM

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suezy1

Posted 28 July 2009 - 02:26 PM

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hey , i have windows vista and my dvd/cd-rom burner stop working.
whenever i place a disk inside the drive and go to windows media player, it says connect burner and restart player . but under my device manager, the cd rom drive thing has a yellow and black exclamation point! can you please tell me whats wrong?
-suezy1

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Broni

Posted 28 July 2009 - 08:07 PM

Kraków my love :)

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One of these may help:
1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or...
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Restart computer.
or...
3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept registry merge.
Restart computer.
or...
4. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.