It seems a CD I was using to install a program somehow came off of the tray and is still inside my DVD drive. The tray ejects fine and I can see the CD in there. It would be tough to get at it but it looks like it might be possible to remove it from the front. I could try putting a blank CD in the drive to see if it would jar the first one loose but I really don't want to aggravate the problem.

My Windows Xp Pro based system, SP-2, suddenly quit recognizing my USB external hard drive (Seagate) and my 12 in 1 card reader (SanDisk) My Palm Pilot and Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo were unaffected.

I can move the devices around to different USB ports but the result is still the same....the devices are not seen. I have reinstalled drivers, but no joy.

These devices work just fine on all my other workstations.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

MC
MCharlie@gmail.com

I have Compaq Laptop.It was running Cds fine but now it just runs DVD and wont work for Cd.
Can you help me?
I have windows 7 on it

Belarc Advisor reports my system as follows:
Board: MSI MS-7366 1.0, Bus Clock: 200 megahertz, BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. V2.0 10/25/2007
2.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium Dual, 64 kilobyte primary memory cache, 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Hard Drives:
WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, SMART Status: Healthy
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 214.44 GB 97.85 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 0) 261.92 GB 91.10 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 0) 261.71 GB 172.09 GB free
g: (NTFS on drive 0) 262.13 GB 205.99 GB free

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hey, i have recently been advised to reinstall windows and i am getting the BSoD message when attempting to install windows. this is due to my computer's SATA driver. this requires a floppy with the drivers on it.
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