Ping: PCR CD writer drive stops working

PCR, this ng moves so fast, I thought I better post this new to update you on what
I found out about my HP CDWriter drive that quit, as you wanted to know the outcome.

It turns out my HP Cdwriter is bad, surprise due to HP brand, but the tech
said mine was after HP went to China, quality went down. He read the thread I had
here on the problem, said he had the identical problem on his own computer last
year, tried everything including some of the things from my thread. The cause
turned out to be loading the power supply with addon accessories later. It helped
him, but my actual drive is bad, so unloading the supply didn't improve it.

Regards,

MS

Oh. Too bad. Didn't you have two CD-ROM in that thread, though? And didn't one finally begin to work? I don't recall. Were you able to see one in DOS, after booting a Startup Diskette...?...

Get a Startup Diskette from
http://www.bootdisk.com/ , if you don't already have one from "Control
Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Take either one that
applies to your system. Test the Startup Diskette. Put the diskette in &
turn on the computer. Put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. That is, "DIR X:",
where "X:" is the CD-ROM letter. It will say which letter is the CD.
(Note: It may be necessary to enter BIOS Setup & set it to boot the
floppy drive above the hard drive.)


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"ms" wrote in message ...
| PCR, this ng moves so fast, I thought I better post this new to update you on what
| I found out about my HP CDWriter drive that quit, as you wanted to know the outcome.
|
| It turns out my HP Cdwriter is bad, surprise due to HP brand, but the tech
| said mine was after HP went to China, quality went down. He read the thread I had
| here on the problem, said he had the identical problem on his own computer last
| year, tried everything including some of the things from my thread. The cause
| turned out to be loading the power supply with addon accessories later. It helped
| him, but my actual drive is bad, so unloading the supply didn't improve it.
|
| Regards,
|
| MS

PCR wrote:
Oh. Too bad. Didn't you have two CD-ROM in that thread, though? And didn't one finally begin to work? I don't recall. Were you able to see one in DOS, after booting a Startup Diskette...?...

Get a Startup Diskette from
http://www.bootdisk.com/ , if you don't already have one from "Control
Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Take either one that
applies to your system. Test the Startup Diskette. Put the diskette in &
turn on the computer. Put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. That is, "DIR X:",
where "X:" is the CD-ROM letter. It will say which letter is the CD.
(Note: It may be necessary to enter BIOS Setup & set it to boot the
floppy drive above the hard drive.)


Yep, you remember right, a long story, but the working CD read drive was removed,
it will go back.

Regarding boot disks, I have about 4 old ones around. Is the disk from the above
link preferable to the standard one the OS produces?

MS

Four! Could be three don't work, then, if you've got four! You must use one created by/for your OS. That means Win98SE, if you are that. A fit/proper Startup Diskette will have it's own CD-ROM driver(s). This will be independent of any Windows problem.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"ms" wrote in message ...
| PCR wrote:
| Oh. Too bad. Didn't you have two CD-ROM in that thread, though? And didn't one finally begin to work? I don't recall. Were you able to see one in DOS, after booting a Startup Diskette...?...
|
| Get a Startup Diskette from
| http://www.bootdisk.com/ , if you don't already have one from "Control
| Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Take either one that
| applies to your system. Test the Startup Diskette. Put the diskette in &
| turn on the computer. Put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. That is, "DIR X:",
| where "X:" is the CD-ROM letter. It will say which letter is the CD.
| (Note: It may be necessary to enter BIOS Setup & set it to boot the
| floppy drive above the hard drive.)
|
|
| Yep, you remember right, a long story, but the working CD read drive was removed,
| it will go back.
|
| Regarding boot disks, I have about 4 old ones around. Is the disk from the above
| link preferable to the standard one the OS produces?
|
| MS