no more discs My 1st cdrom drive broke when a disc half got trapped inside. Now my cdrw is not reading discs. It's external and took a 1 foot fall to carpeting prior to the problem, but I don't know if that caused it. It starts up, a cd appears on the cursor, it makes three noises inside(it did that before it broke but didn't until a month ago). It wasn't on the safest, cleanest shelf. Does the problem seem bad, or just something like it needs cleaned or something came unattached inside? I can't afford a replacement right now.
I am good at misreading, this morning. I read your first sentence as 'half a disc got trapped inside' and I was picturing one half of a CD. That isn't what you meant, is it? I gave my CD-RW away to my grandson so he could write music (which he hasn't). In fact, I don't think that they ever use it. It was a nuisance because there were quite a number of games I had trouble with because they were so frightened of having their CDs copied. Now I have a CD and a DVD, both ROM. CD - Compact Disc - DVD - Digitil Versatile Disc - ROM - Read Only Memory - but, of course, you already knew all that.
I did mean half of a cd ... it broke inside, half was in the tray and the other half stuck inside. The computer store said that would cost $60 to replace. I think I have to get the cdrw drive fixed 1st, as I need to make my own discs.
Possibly that drop caused some mechanism to be destroyed...possibly the items that cause the disc to spin
I once had a client (yes, I really did, once) who was, at one time, in the elctronic repair business and knew a lot about it. His video recorder went wrong, so he took it to bits, ascertained the problem and went to buy the appropriate part. The man in the shop told him the price, which was more than a new video would have cost. So had did what we all do - he threw it away and bought a new one. I was sorry to hear that one half of a cd got lodged in your machine. I have a son-in-law who is in the hardware business. He has two printers and a nineteen inch monitor from me on the basis that if he could repair them he could keep them. He did and they haven't given him a moments trouble ever since. I heard the other day about a doctor who thought his vets bill was too high so he did the job himself. The dog is fine, I understand. I hope the vet doesn't take the same view about the doctor.
