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ishwan
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_ 		25. October 2007 @ 11:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi there,

I have a Dell inspiron 6000 which i have had to recently instal a new hard drive in, upon uploading windows etc. to the machine - the cd/dvd drive was just whirring and not booting the disk, until i used a DVD of windows vista which booted first time no probs.

When windows was loaded i tried to upload microsoft office, and other cds (tried 9 in total) all of which work in my other laptop, but not this all i got was a whirred and scraping sound from the cd/dvd drive (SONT DVD+-RW DW-D56A ATA). However when i tried a dvd in the drive it worked without any problems.

After forking out for my new hardrive i don't really wanna have to spend again buying new cd/dvd drive, and hope there is a fix to this.

Can anyone help.

PS i'm new!!!
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core2kid
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_ 		2. November 2007 @ 11:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Try to swap the drives in the two laptops and see if it works.
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