CD/DVD combo will not read

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CD/DVD combo will not read

Sep 16th, 2006

My cd drive will not read disks when I attempt to open a disk the drive states that the disk is not formated and do I want to format the disk I tried to flash the BIOS but that didn't work A little help please

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Re: CD/DVD combo will not read

Sep 22nd, 2006

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Originally Posted by roadmut

My cd drive will not read disks when I attempt to open a disk the drive states that the disk is not formated and do I want to format the disk I tried to flash the BIOS but that didn't work A little help please

Is it the just that cd/dvd that doesn't work?

1. Try another cd/dvd, see if that works.
2. If that don't work, check that you have the correct drivers for the cd/dvd drive.

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