This is tough sledding with a laptop. First thing to do is (with the computer turned of) unplug all the cables and plug them back in. Turn it on and see if it is then recognized. If that fails, the odds are that the drive or the cable is bad. It could also be a driver conflict. The driver for the outboard drive could have clobbered the driver for the old internal drive.
>I have an HP zv6000 laptop, running XP home version 2002, service pack 2. >Installed in the laptop is a DVD/CD burner (Original with the laptop)that >is no longer being recognized by the laptop. When I put a disc into it, the >green activity light on the CD tray lights up, the CD seems to spin for a >short period of time and then nothing. The optical device does not show up in >the device manager. I have had to purchase a USB outboard drive to burn CDs >and DVDs. Any thoughts on the matter? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
