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6809 Slimtype drive problems

Discussion in 'eMachines' started by bballbill, Dec 29, 2006.

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My 6809 has the LiteOn Slimtype 431s optical drive which has been acting flakey. It tends to not recognize discs when they're inserted, does not autorun, and has the annoying habit of shutting down the laptop while in the midst of ripping a cd. I believe this is probably some kind of software problem because there are ways I can get it to work for a while. My main question right now is that in the "My Computer" window it shows up as two separate drives:
DVD-RW Drive (D) type CD Drive
DVD Drive (E) type CD Drive

Is this normal?

bballbill, Dec 29, 2006

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jim6172 Notebook Evangelist

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with only 1 drive this is not normal try deleting drives from device manager in safe mode restart and let windows redetect
jim

jim6172, Dec 29, 2006

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Thanks Jim, tried that, just comes back the same way.

bballbill, Dec 30, 2006

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i would recommend that u try to disable the devices, remove and reseat the optical drive

cheers ...

qhn, Jan 3, 2007

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