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Title: DVD rom drive not working
Post by: ivy90 on January 28, 2008, 03:59:03 PM

I recently bought a McAfee total protection program so i can protect my computer but once i put in the cd the cd/dvd rom drive began to make the noise like its reading it and about to open, but it will stop, redue that noise and then begin some grinding noise like it was stuck or not able to read the cd. On my system it says that the device is working properly and before installing the cd i downloaded uniblue registrybooster 2 to see if i had any problems in my registry, now im afraid that it might have deleted some registry keys that work with my cd/dvd rom drive. Pleaseeeeeeee someone help me /sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':(\' />

Title: DVD rom drive not working
Post by: guestolo on January 28, 2008, 11:17:59 PM

http://www.liutilities.com/support/faq/articles/120/ (http://\"http://www.liutilities.com/support/faq/articles/120/\")

Title: DVD rom drive not working
Post by: ivy90 on January 29, 2008, 04:05:38 PM

[quote name=\'guestolo\' post=\'420276\' date=\'Jan 28 2008, 11:17 PM\']http://www.liutilities.com/support/faq/articles/120/ (http://\"http://www.liutilities.com/support/faq/articles/120/\")[/quote]


the thing is, i already deleted the program...

Title: DVD rom drive not working
Post by: guestolo on January 29, 2008, 07:19:16 PM

[quote name=\'ivy90\' post=\'420354\' date=\'Jan 29 2008, 02:05 PM\']the thing is, i already deleted the program...[/quote]

That's the benefit's of running registry cleaning programs, If your not sure what your removing it can do more harm than good
As it appears in your case

You can try uninstalling your DVD drive in Device manager and then reboot the computer
Let Windows reinstall it on startup and see if that helps

Title: DVD rom drive not working
Post by: ivy90 on January 29, 2008, 10:44:41 PM

[quote name=\'guestolo\' post=\'420382\' date=\'Jan 29 2008, 07:19 PM\']That's the benefit's of running registry cleaning programs, If your not sure what your removing it can do more harm than good
As it appears in your case

You can try uninstalling your DVD drive in Device manager and then reboot the computer
Let Windows reinstall it on startup and see if that helps[/quote]

okay i just uninstalled and restarted, i inserted another cd but nopeeeeeeeeeeee nada still. i hate this!

Title: DVD rom drive not working
Post by: guestolo on January 29, 2008, 11:14:33 PM

Well, you may get lucky at try using System Restore to a point before when you knew the DVD rom worked