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Expert: Roy Bonner - 11/6/2006


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my DVD open and recognize any CD and open it and read it But whenever i enter any cd witch contains media or film the DVD doesn't open it or even recognize the CD !!!! and Then the drive make hang !!!!!!!!!!!

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Hi,

Are you sure that you actually have a DVD drive? If you just have a CD drive it certainly won't see DVDs, they may look alike, but they are totally different. Putting a DVD into a CD drive would certainly make the system hjang for about 5 minutes until the system times out of trying to read the disk.

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Roy

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Motherboard/cpu, disk drives, sound card, graphics card and modem setup, also software setup win95,98,98SE,Me,NT3.5, NT4, XP & win2000, Lotus, MS Office 95, 97, 2000 & 2003.

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Hi, I have been doing this spot here for some years now, and I like to think that I have helped a few people here and there, but due to advancing years and failing health, I'm afraid that I have decided that I can no longer carry on since I can no longer guarantee to be able to answer questions in a reasonable timescale. I should like to thank all the other experts and the users of this site for what has been an enjoyable and enlightening experience. I shall be terminating next Sunday 12th November 2006.

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