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    « on: June 10, 2009, 07:42:14 AM »
    I have a Dimension 3000 bought in 2005. If I go to Dell drivers and downloads and download a driver. Does it automatically remove the old drive installation and then install it again?

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    « Reply #1 on: June 10, 2009, 07:46:26 AM »
    No.
    Most times you need to locate the DLoaded file and double-click it for it to install itself...
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      « Reply #2 on: June 10, 2009, 07:48:31 AM »
      doesnt he have to remove his old ones before dloading the new ones?
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      « Reply #3 on: June 10, 2009, 07:53:58 AM »
      The only time i have seen this cause issues is with some video drivers...
      And this is blown way out of proportion for the # of times it happens anyways...
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        « Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 08:07:03 AM »
        Patio,

        Do I do this in device mamager?

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        Re: Drivers
        « Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 08:09:27 AM »
        What is the driver for ? ?
        As i said you can normally just find the driver file you DLoaded and double click it ...
        The installation will proceed from there.
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          « Reply #6 on: June 10, 2009, 08:17:17 AM »
          My DVD driver. It is a NEC DVD+-RW ND-3530A. My problem is, if I right click on a disk to creat a folder it tells me. "Unable to create the folder "New Folder" Access is Denied.

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          Re: Drivers
          « Reply #7 on: June 10, 2009, 08:19:45 AM »
          CD/DVD drives have not needed drivers installed since WinME...
          Are you trying to burn something to the DVD ? ?
          A burned CD/DVD that has a project burned to it will not allow you to create a new folder...
          Perhaps this is the issue here.
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            Re: Drivers
            « Reply #8 on: June 10, 2009, 08:24:46 AM »
            I have always stored my photos, word documents, ect. on DVD disks since I bought the PC. Now all of a sudden I can't put a photo or word document on my disks.

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            Re: Drivers
            « Reply #9 on: June 10, 2009, 04:42:45 PM »
            What happens?

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            Re: Drivers
            « Reply #10 on: June 10, 2009, 04:48:22 PM »
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            if I right click on a disk to creat a folder it tells me. "Unable to create the folder "New Folder" Access is Denied.

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            Re: Drivers
            « Reply #11 on: June 10, 2009, 04:51:17 PM »
            Oooops...:)

            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.

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            Re: Drivers
            « Reply #12 on: June 10, 2009, 06:16:42 PM »
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            A burned CD/DVD that has a project burned to it will not allow you to create a new folder...
            Perhaps this is the issue here.

            I think this may be it...
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              Re: Drivers
              « Reply #13 on: June 11, 2009, 07:25:22 AM »
              Broni,

              I did item one and two.
              Item three did not have cdgone.reg.
              Item four was also done.

              I still can't open a new folder on a empty dvd disk. If I try to change a word document on an existing disk and try to save, it goes to the save as window and tells me this file is read only. If I try to change the name and file it with save as, it tells me:
              "Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure that the disk you want to save the file on is not full, write-protected, or damaged".

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              Re: Drivers
              « Reply #14 on: June 11, 2009, 06:24:39 PM »
              In that case, most likely, the drive needs to be replaced.