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Seychelles

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Laptop drive has suddenly stopped working
« on: June 11, 2010, 03:18:20 AM »
I own a Toshiba A100, model no. PSAA5A-01H00T, operating suite Windows XP, virus programs Norton Anti-Virus, Trend Micro PC-illin. Have programs disks for all.

 Recently the CD drive stopped working suddenly. It won't play CDs, DVDs or PC Games where it worked perfectly before.  I don't know if it is a software or a hardware problem, but would really appreciate some help. It's really frustrating!
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Re: Laptop drive has suddenly stopped working
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2010, 06:17:17 AM »
Try pressing the drive release button on the side/bottom and re-seat the drive...
Do this with all power off.
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Re: Laptop drive has suddenly stopped working
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2010, 06:19:01 AM »
Insert a bootable disc, make sure the cd drive is at the top of the boot order in bios, and reboot. Does the system see the drive at boot?
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