My cd drives won't work.?
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try cleaning the laser lens with a can of compressed air, or with a cd cleaning kit
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What OS do u run ur pc on??\nTry scanning ur PC for hardware changes and if that does not work, goto your hardware - device manager and select ur CD/DVD drive, try to reinstall the driver from properties option. \nIf ur system is W9x or lower goodluck.\nALso have you tried to clean ur CDRW drive?
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1. use cd lens cleaner \n2. try using other cds\n3. as it is cd/dvd rw Try to write
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It's very likely you CD drive has worn out or broke down. I would get a new one, you can get them very cheap, even a DVD burner drive. Try TigerDirect.
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When you install the software, do you reboot the computer? How many drives do you have? Check your program to see if you are loading the disc in the one it is expecting to see the blank disc in.\n\nI had a drive go bad and it didn't see anything. You can check that out by putting a program cd in and seeing if it opens or by going to my computer and looking.\n\nAlso, check out your hardware profiles. Look to see if it(the cd burner or reader) is being recognized and the drivers are working properly.
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Try with a normal Data CD first(not a CDR). A pressed CD is much more accurate than a CDR and will be easier for the drive to read (most of the time). If it does read then you may wish to try and clean the dive using a CD/DVD cleaner. You may be lucky. if it doesn't read you may want to check those cables again and then use the cleaner but you are unlikely to have much luck if it's not  a silly thing with the cables. Dont bother trying to get it fixed or generally fiddling about just get another from any one of the millions of Retail outlets such as Dabs and Aria ..etctec\n\nIve been repairing comps for 20 years and CD drives are too awkward and too cheap to fiddle with ...John
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Will it recognises old cd's? Actually for these type of question you should tell what exactlly is happening and is the error you are getting?\n\nCheck whether it recognises other cd's. If yes then check the new cd is working or not. You can check that in your friends pc. If it is getting regonised in other systems then your cdrom might have gone means it'll have a thing called head. If that goes some time it'll recognise some cd's some time it wont.\n\nClean the head using head cleaner
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You could be having a hardware error.  Check the disk you are trying to use in another drive, and try a known good disk in your drive.  Once you verify the problem, then check all the connections on your CD drive, make sure they are solid and the unit is getting power. If everything checks out and it doesnt work, you will have to replace the hardware.
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Usually you don't need adriver for an internal CD, DVD drives.\nIf your computer didn't recognize the drive, that another issue.\nagain is it internal or external?
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Just check the cables of the floppy disc that is in motherboard side. I think you just missed that side.\nThank you.
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Have you changed drivers by any chance?  If nothing else has changed, your drive may be broken, time to buy a new one.
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you need a win98 start up floppy disk with cdrom support on it, it will install generic drivers to run the cd drive
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Make sure your drivers are updated, make sure the CD is clean, make sure the media is good, try another cd, buy a new CD.\n\nSorry, I wish I could be more help.
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well the disks won't help you, you may have too much stored on the harddrive already, try deleting some large or unimportant files from your computer and try again, no promise it will work.  If you have any more questions about this, feel free to e-mail me!
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yea check ALL the drives.\nif not, u r screwed, and might need to format ur hdd or get a new 1
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Re-boot and go into the Bios and see if they are being recognized there.  If not, try a different power connector from the power supply. It sounds like the drives aren't even getting power. It's hard to believe both drives could go bad at once.  Even if the IDE Controller went bad, the drive tray will still open as long as it's getting power.
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Try putting a floppy disk in the drive that you have used before and it worked last time you used it.  If it isn't recognized, it's possible that the drive itself may have gone bad.  Fortunately floppy drives are quite inexpensive now as it is considered an outdated technology.  I would, however, suggest finding another computer that has both a CD burner and a floppy drive, and using it to burn your files to a CD.  If it is the floppy drive that's broken, I'd suggest replacing it with a CD burner (they aren't very expensive anymore).  Floppy drives are pretty much obsolete, so if you want to keep your files for any length of time, you would be better off to go with more current technology.