Ok, I see in this post below you say the problematic drive is a combo drive, so what's the other part of it? My guess would be CDRW (but DVD burners are ALSO CDRW drives, so that's confusing), at any rate, you can still do what I suggested in my previous post (boot from the drive with a bootable CD), and again, make sure it's the optical drive that's set as the bootable optical drive. -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com http://ComputersCustomBuilt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Schnepf" Elaine, I have two drives- one is a combo drive (the one with the problem) the other is CD Rom. I wish they would have sent me the files on CD! Honestly, if anyone knows how to put this restore disc onto a CD please tell me so after I fix this I can also have these files on CD just in case. On the combo drive- the cd part works- I can play and burn CDs. On that same drive, I cannot play or burn DVDs. I've since learned from Gateway that there are two lasers in that drive. One for CD and one for DVD. So they think the laser part of the DVD burner is bad. But that doesn't explain why PowerDVD had to be reinstalled and why my system restore doesn't work now. Lisa -----Original Message----- Mine came with a combo writer drive, but the restore/reformat files are on CDs and they are placed in the CD-ROM not the writer. Elaine When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. --Clarence Darrow Hello Support-OrpheusComputing.com On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, you wrote > I assume they do that if the PC comes with any DVD drive. -Clint > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ETM" > I've only seen the OEM "restore" CDs (usually more > than one in the restore/reformat pack) that come > with brand name PCs (and I have them for all my > name brand PCs) and never have seen a restore DVD. > When did they switch to DVDs? I have a three year > old HP and its restore/reformat package contains > eight CDs. > Elaine ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
