Hey there.
I have a Toshiba A200 laptop and lately the CD drive has been really annoying. Now the reason i put this under the Operating System thread is because nothing is wrong with the drive physically, i mean, it works fine (when it works) and burns fine but every so often, when i eject a disk and put a new one in, under my computer it just comes up as DVD-RW and when i click on it, it says please insert disk. Now i have no idea why.... does anyone else.
Sorry if i posted in the wrong thread.

What version of WIndows are you using? I would also look for a driver update.

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Kubuntu 8.04.1

KDE 3.5.10

Vista ofcourse
But yeah, i've checked for all the driver updates and what not, everything seems to be up to date. I've had a look on google and people are having similar problems but not exactly the same as mine, as in, their drives arn't working at all. Mine works abit.

Do you have all the Windows updates?

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Kubuntu 8.04.1

KDE 3.5.10

yep. ive got all the latest upgrades and everything. This is really strange.

Well you could always switch to linux

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Kubuntu 8.04.1

KDE 3.5.10

lolz. i had Ubuntu installed for a while then i got rid of it because i thought i would install XP on that partition but because i have a SATA HDD it didnt work so now ive just got vista. Im working on getting the drivers for the HD though. I miss XP.

You could slipstream the drivers into your xp setup disk

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How do you do that??????

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Using a program like nLite allows you to customize your installation of Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003. You can integrate service packs and hotfixes and drivers from Microsoft directly into your windows distribution files without having to re-download and install them every time you need to re-install windows.

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I tried to slip stream it but my CD doesnt boot now. Lol but i will save this problem for another thread . i should really help some other people out first.