Lost My D:\

[begsaresponse]

An hour ago I used it. It is physically still there but if I play a disc nothing comes up. If I click on 'run' an error message comes up saying that the drive is unavailable.

Thanks

begs

[begsaresponse]

The good news after working on it for bloody hours its fixed.

And just in case someone else ever has the same problem this is what I did.

I placed a cd cleaner into the drive.

I then removed the drive from my laptop and carefully wiped the external area with a clean dry cloth.

Placed it back in and it worked.

[2008bangkok]

Ha ha nice 1 computers hey!!!

[cathyy]

Out of curiosity, have you installed any new games? Perhaps an EA game with Securom? That's known to damage optical drives. My sister's DVD burner thinks it's only a dvd reader after installing an EA game with Securom -not the new version just coming out, the older version. It's why I won't buy any more EA software.

[A_Traveller]

You should be able to reactivate the drive by reinstalling the drive's firmware.

Regards

LINK a place to start

[begsaresponse]

My laptop is a Dell. So I thought I would tell them about this problem since I still have warranty. They asked me to carry out some tasks, which I could not! They duly said they will send out their engineer on Tuesday (today). He arrived installed the new drive and updated the BIOS. When they said they would. WOW!