DVD RW Question from a Newbie

mushroomboy · 08-16-2009, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by catkin

You could try booting these DVDs; if they boot you know the drive is OK and it's an ubuntu problem in which case see launchpad bug 228624.

That's what I was trying to get across, try to boot something outside of an os. that puts it at hw support, if you can't boot any code than more or less the drive is done

catkin · 08-17-2009, 03:44 AM

Reviewing the thread, msuleyman got there already in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...27#post3645527

mushroomboy · 08-19-2009, 08:40 AM

Ahh yeah my bad, drive is probably dead at that point. You could try it in another computer but the chances of anything good is slim.

msuleyman · 09-16-2009, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by mushroomboy

Ahh yeah my bad, drive is probably dead at that point. You could try it in another computer but the chances of anything good is slim.

After everything it was the drive. Thanks to everyone for all their help.