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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,204 Send Message	badger	Report	8 Mar 2010 09:44
	Maybe the new cd rom is a + media? Fred
	Researching: Baird,Barnes,Sturgess,King,Bristow, Mead,Brooks,Lane,Bartlett, Tyneside Chesham, Bucks,London & home counties
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,071 Send Message	BrianW	Report	7 Mar 2010 21:12
	My computer is running Windows 2000 Professional. It had a CD ROM and a DVD read/writer . They were not reading properly but a cleaning disk brought the DVD unit back to life, but not the CD ROM. So I had the CD ROM replaced by another new DVD reader/writer, as there was only £10 difference in the cost. Both drives will play a pre-recorded CD or DVD. Problem is that if I put a blank CD-R disk in either unit the computer tells me there is not a disk in there. Yet if I put the same disk in another computer it is recognised. I have tried three different blank disks in each drive, in case the disk was faulty, but with the same result, so I am inclined to think it's a software problem rather than a disk or hardware one. Any help would be appreciated.
	Researching: Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)