Top 20 E-Machines emachines (emachinees) CD-ROM Drive Questions & Answers

windows xp3 will work

there is a little hole just below the tray. straighten a paper clip`and push it into the hole - not the headphone socket.

Click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll down cd-dvd rom drives you might see a yellow question /exclamation mark ? ! or a red X right click to update driver You might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd computer then plug them back in restart your this should activate the found new hardware wizard. If this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problem "you only need to do the following" if you cant see your disk drive in windows explorer Close all open programs Click on Start, Run, and typeregedit and press Enter Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Class {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column. Upper Filters Lower Filters Upper Filters.bak Lower Filters.bak If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete After deleting the keys, close the registry editor Reboot your computerOpen My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone. if this fails to fix the problem It could be a problem with the lens you could use a liquid type lens cleaner place 2-3 drops on top of a cd/dvd then run it http://www.nextag.com/dvd-lens-cleaner/shop-html http://www.infopackets.com/news/hardware/2005/20050315_clean_cd_or_dvd_rom_lens_with_a_brush_part_2.htm Also There are several general categories of symptoms of CD/DVD drive malfunctioning from the drive not lighting up all the way to drives that burn, but with errors. You can diagnosis and repair your optical drive with simple fixes. Restart your PC before checking or doing anything. Sometimes simply restarting your PC will solve the problem. If your drive doesn't appear in the "Computer" dialog or Explorer, press the "F5" key to refresh the list. If that doesn't work, download and install a freeware program such as CDGone (aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip) to get the drive to reappear in the Device Manager or Explorer. You should subsequently reinstall third party CD/DVD playing and burning software. If your CD/DVD drive connects with an IDE ribbon cable, try each drive attached on the IDE ribbon separately. If they do work separately, both drives probably have their jumpers set as master drives. Make sure that one drive is set as the master drive and the other to the slave drive. If the CD/DVD drive door won't open, determine whether the tray is obstructed. Stick a straightened out paper clip in the little hole and try to push out the tray. With a removable laptop drive, pull it out and shove it back in solidly. Also clean the contacts of the drive with a pencil eraser. With a drive installed in a desktop computer, unplug the machine and pull the data and power cables and then reseat them firmly, being sure to connect completely. With a volt meter, test the power cable going to the drive. It should have two wires with a 5 volt ~1 amp circuit and the other two with a 12 volt ~1 amp circuit. From these tests, you can determine if the drive is mechanically and electrically sound and if the power supply needs replacement. Note that there are usually several spare power supply drive leads which can be tested and used to replace a faulty one. Purchase and use a CD lens cleaner or use a compressed air cleaner can. If the drive doesn't light up when a CD/DVD is placed in it: With removable laptop drive, pull it out and shove it back in solidly. With removable laptop drive, clean the contacts of the drive with a pencil eraser. With a desktop model, unplug the machine and pull the data and power cables and then firmly reseat them. If the drive functions perfectly well without an indicator light, the drive light may be defective. Failure to light up may indicate a problem with the inner workings of the drive, such as a short in the drive motor, drive train, laser or another kind of electrical failure. In that case, you probably need to replace the drive. If the drive initially lights and then "dies" after a disk is inserted and you keep receiving a message "Please Insert Disk," this may indicate a dirty laser lens. Use a CD lens cleaner or a compressed air cleaner. A drive light that is intermittent could indicate loose cables. To verify, remove the cover of your computer and make sure the drive cables are firmly attached. If you have a laptop, a technician may need to take apart the machine to make sure the drive connections to the motherboard are secure. Many laptops have modular CD/DVD drives that you can sometimes reseat by pulling them out and pushing them back in firmly. With removable laptop drive, also clean the contacts of the drive with a pencil eraser. If the CD/Drive Lights Up but Fails to Appear in the Device Manager: Try right clicking on My Computer and choosing "Manage." Click on Disk Management on the left hand side and then under the "Action" Menu choose "Rescan Disks." Also go into the Device manager, click on the root of the tree or on any of the items and choose "Scan for hardware changes." * A dying motherboard, for instance one that has a dead IDE channel, can cause this. A way around is to buy a PCI IDE or SATA expansion card and hook your CD/DVD drives to that. *Viruses can also cause Device Manager disappearances. Do a virus scan. * Remove the upper and lower filters from the registry keys at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318. You may have to reinstall burning and viewing software. If you use ITunes, remove the lower filter and set the upper filter to the value of "GEARAspiWDM" without the quotes. * See the Additional Resources at the end of the this article and try the popular CDGONE patch. This removes the upper and lower filters and changes some additional keys. Any third party burning and viewing applications may have to be re-installed. Using search, find the afs.sys and/or afs2k.sys files. Rename them with a "bak" or "old" extension. These Oak Technologies cd driver files conflict with Windows cdrom.sys, the CD-ROM driver. If the CD/DVD drive appears in the Device Manager but fails to appear in Explorer: Remove the upper and lower filters from the registry key at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318. You may have to reinstall the burning software. If you use ITunes, remove the lower filter and set the upper filter to the value of "GEARAspiWDM" (without the quotes). Look at the registry settings for the value "NoDrives" at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer. If the values are anything other than zero, Group Policy may be hiding the drives. You may have to ask your administrator to change things, but if it is a local machine not in a business setting, you can change Local Group Policy yourself by running gpedit.msc in the "Run" command in the "Start" menu. In Device Manager, uninstall your CD/DVD drive and then have Windows rediscover the device by rescanning for hardware changes. In Device Manager also uninstall and reinstall the IDE port on which you drive is located. http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip

Click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll down cd-dvd rom drives you might see a yellow question /exclamation mark ? ! or a red X right click to update driver You might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd computer then plug them back in restart your this should activate the found new hardware wizard. If this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problem "you only need to do the following" if you cant see your disk drive in windows explorer Close all open programs Click on Start, Run, and typeregedit and press Enter Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Class {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column. Upper Filters Lower Filters Upper Filters.bak Lower Filters.bak If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete After deleting the keys, close the registry editor Reboot your computerOpen My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone. if this fails to fix the problem It could be a problem with the lens you could use a liquid type lens cleaner place 2-3 drops on top of a cd/dvd then run it http://www.nextag.com/dvd-lens-cleaner/shop-html http://www.infopackets.com/news/hardware/2005/20050315_clean_cd_or_dvd_rom_lens_with_a_brush_part_2.htm

WARNING: Before you start troubleshooting remember that you are dealing with electricity that can KILL. http://www.kitchentablecomputers.com/static.php - rules Click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll down cd-dvd rom drives you might see a yellow question /exclamation mark ? ! or a red X right click to update driver You might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd computer then plug them back in restart your this should activate the found new hardware wizard. If this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problem "you only need to do the following" if you cant see your disk drive in windows explorer Close all open programs Click on Start, Run, and typeregedit and press Enter Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Class {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column. Upper Filters Lower Filters Upper Filters.bak Lower Filters.bak If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete After deleting the keys, close the registry editor Reboot your computerOpen My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone.

The small hole to put a pin or paperclip into is on the face of the DVD tray. It is there, look hard for it.

Yes you have to reinstall Windows 7, because the operating system resides on the Hard Drive. You can certainly try using the product key under the laptop. I also believe that if you have the recovery media and want to reinstall on the SAME computer with a different hard drive it should work. It is possible that you will not have to register again.

Should have a tiny hole you can put a paper clip in...Straighten out a paper clip and insert into hole while pushing the eject button

The CD drive has a pinhole on the door/drawer. It should be located close to the button you press to open the drive. Straighten a paper clip and insert it in the pinhole, pressing gently. The drive should open, releasing the CD.

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If it is USB CD_Drive you can plug it in a USB port of the computer. You may have to install drivers, but usually Windows Update can download them from the Internet.

There is a teeny hole on a front panel. Use a needle, paperclip or other object that can fit into the hole and gently push. That should open the door.Hope that helps

System cannot find CD/DVD drive Go to Control Panel - System - Hardware tab - Device manager scroll through to DVD/CD ROM drives and right click on the DVD/CD drive, then uninstall, restart, the computer will automatically reinstall the driver software.

You can get the updates in the website of your computer's manufacturer. However, if you want to go for the easy way since you are not that computer literate, so it would be very recommended to go for the automatic PC driver updater called RadarSync. Google it.David

1: Download a disk read error repair tool,install this error repair tool.2: Open disk read error repair tool and scan you computer for free3: Then click the Repair All Button again and your done! It is very easy to repair disk read error.Here are the url of disk read error repair tool:http://www.RepairErrorInstantly.com/ttfi...

or rather than doing this try the alternative which is windows own repair

click start right click on my computer you should see your drive usually C: select properties click tools check now tick both boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery on any

bad sectors or you could tick one box and wait until its finished then return and tick the other box then select check now start should schedule this task when restart do not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage your computer also download a registry cleaner

http://download.cnet.com/jetclean/3000-18512_4-75627788.html JetClean tidies your registry, gets rid of junk files, deletes broken shortcuts, and attempts to give your computer that like-new feel again.

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Click the "Start" button, click the "Run" option and then type "regedit" and click the "OK" button. Use the navigation pane on the left side of the window to navigate to the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Select the "UpperFilters" key in the right side of the window, then click the "Edit" button and then click the "Delete" option. Click "Yes" to confirm the deletion. Click the "LowerFilters" key, then select the "Edit" button and choose the "Delete" option again. Click "Yes" to confirm the deletion. Close the Registry Editor window and restart the computer to finish applying the settings that should fix the Code 19 error. Hope this helps.

restart your computer repeatedly tapping the f8 key to enter safe mode while the screen is black once in safe mode where the only things working will be your keyboard and mouse allowing you to attempt to repair your computer you could select the option start at last known configuration that worked this will tell you if and what file has been corrupted or missing then you will know if its a hardware issue then select restart if the problem still persists f8 back into safe mode you might need to select your operating system to load into safe mode click start control panel administration tools computer management in the left panel events + to expand then system you will see all errors in right panel right click select properties this will tell you what has occurred and the time it occurred you might use the system restore to restore your system to an earlier time click start all programs accessories system tools you should see your system restore option if it is a hardware issue the system restore might not work if the system restore fails

test your PSU or replace it if your power supply units fan is not working your PSU is faulty

one bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect/ boot up a computer hard drive test all power and data leads that attach to your hard drive IDE,SATA

the leads from your "((MOTHERBOARD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE))" make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they could be faulty computers need data and power to travel through every working device and to continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error even something as small as a faulty power connection or faulty fan lead can cause you problems a motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive if its a flat ribbon 40 pin type IDE replace it this will be the first to fail check all electrical power input and extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd floppy drives need to have current go through make sure these drives are working also check the Cmos battery and computer ram modules make sure they are securely seated on some motherboards cmos batteries are soldered in hope this helps

you cant format a your hard without an installation disk unles it a uasb driveRestart your computer now as soon as you hit the power button keep on holding Alt key & keep on tapping F10 key Alt+F10 it will open the recovery console select full factory restore and follow on screen instruction

this may vary depending on your computer and operating system

(Note:this will erase all datas on the computer)

or you might try

Restart your computer during the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup

Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS using the arrow keys you can load failsafe defaults or load optimized defaults ,press escape then press f10 to save to cmos to restart You will also need to set the time and date

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Click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll down cd-dvd rom drives you might see a yellow question /exclamation mark ? ! or a red X right click to update driver you might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd restart your computer then plug them back this should activate the found new hardware wizard if this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problem if you cant see your disk drive in windows explorer Close all open programs

Click on Start, Run, and type regedit and press Enter Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SYSTEM

CurrentControlSet

Control

Class

{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.

Upper Filters

Lower Filters

Upper Filters.bak

Lower Filters.bak

If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose DeleteAfter deleting the keys, close the registry editorReboot your computerOpen My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone.

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what sort of disk are you wanting to load cd or c: drive ?judging by the question cd rom drive Click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll down cd-dvd rom drives you might see a yellow question /exclamation mark ? ! or a red X right click to update driver you might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd restart your computer then plug them back this should activate the found new hardware wizard if this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problem "you only need to do the following" if you cant see your disk drive in windows explorer Close all open programs

Click on Start, Run, and type regedit and press Enter Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SYSTEM

CurrentControlSet

Control

Class

{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.

Upper Filters

Lower Filters

Upper Filters.bak

Lower Filters.bak

If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose DeleteAfter deleting the keys, close the registry editorReboot your computerOpen My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone.

hope this helps