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Old 01-16-2009, 07:48 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by weibullguy View Post
Is the CDROM drive broken?
Thanks for fixing DAD.

Thanks to others who helped as well.

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Old 01-16-2009, 08:24 PM   #17
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It might be damaged. Optical devices are known to fail given certain time (both the disk and the reader). Can you try to read that in other computer/cd reader?
 
  


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