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Title: new Cd Ram drive
Post by: larkspur on Sunday 05 July 09 16:19 BST (UK)
We have a new Cd Ram drive and it will play music Cds  but none of my daughters games SIMS etc, Just makes a clicking noise from the drawer. When I open in My computer it says there is nothing on the CD, What am I doing wrong please....
Title: Re: new Cd Ram drive
Post by: GenealogyPrinters on Sunday 05 July 09 19:41 BST (UK)
xp or vista
Title: Re: new Cd Ram drive
Post by: downside on Sunday 05 July 09 22:32 BST (UK)
CD ROM (Read Only Memory) drive?

It sounds like the games CDs are corrupt.
Title: Re: new Cd Ram drive
Post by: Nick29 on Monday 06 July 09 09:40 BST (UK)
I often find that washing a CD in warm water with a little washing-up liquid can work wonders with old discs  :)
Title: Re: new Cd Ram drive
Post by: GrahamH on Monday 06 July 09 16:22 BST (UK)
If the machine is running under Vista it could be linked to the Autorun problem which I experienced - see This Thread (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,390826.0.html).

Hopefully Microsoft won't take too long to fix it.

Graham
Title: Re: new Cd Ram drive
Post by: larkspur on Tuesday 07 July 09 13:33 BST (UK)
windows XP, ok the old cds could be corrupt but she tried a brand new one. They aslo open fine in her sisters laptop (vista). Have tried the soap trick too - no go on that either.
Title: Re: new Cd Ram drive
Post by: johnfw on Wednesday 08 July 09 02:29 BST (UK)
Is the problem linked to CD/DVD, high content discs can be on dual layer DVD discs and the ROM device might be only CD 700MB type. That said I would imagine any new PC to contain DVD dual layer type ROM device.
Title: Re: new Cd Ram drive completed thankyou
Post by: larkspur on Monday 19 April 10 10:32 BST (UK)
Just to finish this link, we had a new one fitted and all working fine now, thankyou for your help