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CD/DVD drive I/O error.

Jun 12th, 2009

Hi everybody.
If y'all will remember my Toshiba A100 "System Restore not working" post, thanks to all involved, my laptop is once again shiny! But there is still one remaining problemo. When I try to use my inbuilt CD/DVD drive, the disk, whether it be music, movies or anything else, just whirls around and does nothing. If I try to force start it from 'my computer/ cd/dvd drive/d' it comes up with an I/O error. Trouble is I know it works, because if you remember I had to do a full HDD recovery, and I could only use the 'D' drive, as the recovery utility would not recognise my external usb 'F' drive. Any help folks?
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Re: CD/DVD drive I/O error.

Jul 5th, 2009

Sounds like a driver issue since this occured right after a restore. look for updated drivers, and go by the serial number of the drive.

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Re: CD/DVD drive I/O error.

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Originally Posted by dogbreath077

Sounds like a driver issue since this occured right after a restore. look for updated drivers, and go by the serial number of the drive.

Thanks Dogbreath?
I resolved the problem by doing a full HD recovery, using the supplied recovery disk with my latop. There were issues there as well, but at last everything is sorted out.