jackie33
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Lost my CD-Rom drive
I donated a Celeron PC to my school. (I'm a teacher.) It has MS ducts on it that I need for teaching (i.e. PowerPoint in specific.) I'm a real beginner so I hope you'll be patient.
I bought this when I thought I wanted to learn how to do a few things and didn't want to use my main PC because of the ramifications. So, to learn how to partition (why, I've long since forgotten--just something to do), I partitioned the PC. I've even forgotten the drives, but I think there were 4. It was a simple partitioning exercise.
So, when I brought it to my school, the sysop had to install our school/district network on it . In the process, I lost the D: drive/CD-Rom. (It's currently showing up on a shared drive on the network, but it doesn't work.) The sysop said that the only thing he's ever experienced in this case stemmed from a virus. I really don't think the machine has a virus. I rarely used it at home and had it covered under Norton Antivirus until my option to cover it recently expired.
My sysop will probably not get to the problem for months if not in the next school year. Any suggestions?...and thanks.
I bought this when I thought I wanted to learn how to do a few things and didn't want to use my main PC because of the ramifications. So, to learn how to partition (why, I've long since forgotten--just something to do), I partitioned the PC. I've even forgotten the drives, but I think there were 4. It was a simple partitioning exercise.
So, when I brought it to my school, the sysop had to install our school/district network on it . In the process, I lost the D: drive/CD-Rom. (It's currently showing up on a shared drive on the network, but it doesn't work.) The sysop said that the only thing he's ever experienced in this case stemmed from a virus. I really don't think the machine has a virus. I rarely used it at home and had it covered under Norton Antivirus until my option to cover it recently expired.
My sysop will probably not get to the problem for months if not in the next school year. Any suggestions?...and thanks.
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What gave you the impression that the experts here press you for a resolution? :-)
Thank you for that, but as the problem still hasn't been completely solved, please drop back in here fo any further clarifications to thos points discussed, or to discuss new findings that may have arised as a result thereof.
>>> "...Yet, he has the brains, I don't" <<<
Not necessarily, unless IQ is imparted from a piece of paper with a couple of qualifications written on it. Academic qualifications don't always equate to vocational experience and skill.
Actually, Systems Administrators are usually very good at resolving all manner of Networking problems, but are often a little rusty when it comes to diagnosing and solving a problem with one single computer.
That's a lot of users, and I can see why he wouldn't be able to dedicate a whole lot of time to fixing one machine.
One point that will help you read these pages a little more easily. If your address bar says https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20781158/Lost-my-CD-Rom-drive.html then click on the following one to get into the "Old look" that lays out the pages a bit wider:
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Thank you for that, but as the problem still hasn't been completely solved, please drop back in here fo any further clarifications to thos points discussed, or to discuss new findings that may have arised as a result thereof.
>>> "...Yet, he has the brains, I don't" <<<
Not necessarily, unless IQ is imparted from a piece of paper with a couple of qualifications written on it. Academic qualifications don't always equate to vocational experience and skill.
Actually, Systems Administrators are usually very good at resolving all manner of Networking problems, but are often a little rusty when it comes to diagnosing and solving a problem with one single computer.
That's a lot of users, and I can see why he wouldn't be able to dedicate a whole lot of time to fixing one machine.
One point that will help you read these pages a little more easily. If your address bar says https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20781158/Lost-my-CD-Rom-drive.html then click on the following one to get into the "Old look" that lays out the pages a bit wider:
http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com/questions/20781158/Lost-my-CD-Rom-drive.html
Oh, man. That wasn't poor grammar, it was a typo !!
"...arised as a result thereof".
tsk, tsk.
"...arised as a result thereof".
tsk, tsk.
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BillDL,
My sysop serves two school with a total population of about 1200 and probably 60 teachers. He was in my classroom yesterday. Not only do I have a problem with my "teacher" computer, but I have four very old computers that the students use to access the Internet and work on local programs. None of the students' computers have worked since he re-networked our school system last summer. So, as he was trying to re-image the students' computers (which didn't work) he was trying to talk me through getting rid of programs/files on my teacher computer so he could repartition/reconfigure mine. (Remember, I have extra drives that appeared out of nowhere after the renetworking job.) We solved nothing. In the 45 minutes he spent, he couldn't get any of the kids' computers to recognize the CD-Rom drive , and he didn't have time to come back to my computer. He was off to another problem that COULD be solved. He won't spend one minute past his contract hours.
I'll come back, as I said, when the problem's solved. Gosh, you may turn off your notificaiton! (That's okay.)
P.S. I'm glad you proof your comments. I'm still wondering about the word "past".
Thanks, Jackie
My sysop serves two school with a total population of about 1200 and probably 60 teachers. He was in my classroom yesterday. Not only do I have a problem with my "teacher" computer, but I have four very old computers that the students use to access the Internet and work on local programs. None of the students' computers have worked since he re-networked our school system last summer. So, as he was trying to re-image the students' computers (which didn't work) he was trying to talk me through getting rid of programs/files on my teacher computer so he could repartition/reconfigure mine. (Remember, I have extra drives that appeared out of nowhere after the renetworking job.) We solved nothing. In the 45 minutes he spent, he couldn't get any of the kids' computers to recognize the CD-Rom drive , and he didn't have time to come back to my computer. He was off to another problem that COULD be solved. He won't spend one minute past his contract hours.
I'll come back, as I said, when the problem's solved. Gosh, you may turn off your notificaiton! (That's okay.)
P.S. I'm glad you proof your comments. I'm still wondering about the word "past".
Thanks, Jackie
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I'll print your answers, study them, and present them to the sysop. (He's the twerp that got me into this mess!) Hopefully, you'll have the wherewithall to come back.
P.S. Generally speaking, the school district doesn't fix what isn't broke. We currently work in Windows98. It does well for 2000 teachers and 32.000 kids. The next move would take (simply speaking) what's beyond our monetary capacity to employ. (Yes BillDL, I'd ,too, love to trade man-hours with my sysop. Yet, he has the brains; I don't.)