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By the way, I have experimented with a couple of store bought music CDs I've had for several years and they seem to work fine every time.
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By the way, I have experimented with a couple of store bought music CDs I've had for several years and they seem to work fine every time.

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Hi,<br />
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Try cleaning the lens that should be the problem.<br />
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Bye,<br />
Anand
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Hi,

Try cleaning the lens that should be the problem.

Bye,
Anand

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the drive was going bad. &nbsp;I purchased another one and everything is ok
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the drive was going bad.  I purchased another one and everything is ok

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the CD ROM drive in my notebook computer is having random problems reading data CDs. &nbsp;Often when I put a software CD in the drive the light goes on for some time and then my computer will recognize the CD as an audio CD, with 1 dummy file called track 01. &nbsp;Sometimes it will recognize them no problem. &nbsp;These are all original commercial software installation CDs. &nbsp;I have been experimenting with about 5 different CDs and sometimes the same CD will work fine but later will have the problem described above.<br />
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Could this be caused by a dirty lens? &nbsp;I have troubleshooted this by turning off read ahead, reinstalled the master IDE controller, tried in safe mode and also ran the hardware diagnostics program that came with the computer.<br />

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the CD ROM drive in my notebook computer is having random problems reading data CDs.  Often when I put a software CD in the drive the light goes on for some time and then my computer will recognize the CD as an audio CD, with 1 dummy file called track 01.  Sometimes it will recognize them no problem.  These are all original commercial software installation CDs.  I have been experimenting with about 5 different CDs and sometimes the same CD will work fine but later will have the problem described above.

Could this be caused by a dirty lens?  I have troubleshooted this by turning off read ahead, reinstalled the master IDE controller, tried in safe mode and also ran the hardware diagnostics program that came with the computer.


sporadic problems reading CDs

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