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  1. November 5th, 2009, 03:28 PM #1
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    Accessing a CD drive on a W98SE pc

    This laptop has a cd drive and when I insert a commercial audio disk into it I can play and hear it (using CD Player)..

    But when I insert a CD-R disk (one that works fine on my W98 desktop pc) I can’t access it. Using WORD for example I do not see the CD drive listed in the Save As dropdown list.

    I have tried to find it via DOS but doing a cd/ to D;, E:, F:, G:, or H: does not find it.

    Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks.
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  2. November 5th, 2009, 04:16 PM #2
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    older drives can have a hard time reading burned CDs. Not much you can do about it.
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    Put a new burner in there. What I did and it worked just fine.

    Some examples of IDE burners.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...06818&name=IDE
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    Since it's a laptop you'll need a slim drive. Below in the link is one.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827118005
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