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#1 spiderowych

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 03:13 PM

The system has fallen... And DVD wont read any CD, just DVDs... When I put Windows XP CD in DVD R/RW it just 4-5 doing trtrtrtr... Luckily, I had installed Ubuntu alongside XP... Now help me to restore windows somehow... Ask me for any info and I will try to answer on it...

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 04:12 PM

First, turn on a light and carefully inspect your windoze CD. Dampen a paper towel with window cleaner and clean it from the hub, straight outwards, all the way around it. Try the disk again.

Failing that try an external USB CD/DVD reader that DOES read your CD. Or get a new internal drive for the computer (they run about $18).

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 04:13 PM

When you have windows and everything else re-installed, be sure and take a drive image of it. There are Linux tools to do that, like partimage or clonezilla.

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 04:15 PM

Oh, and if a different computer will read it, rip it to ISO and burn it to CDR. Perhaps even DVD-R media.

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 04:44 PM

spiderowych, on 27 May 2012 - 03:13 PM, said:

Hi Spyder, Not to panic. First, got hrough this: http://www.ehow.com/...-xp-cd_rom.html. If taht doesn't help, then you need a new Optical drive. The CD & DVD lasers are on two different wave lengths, so you can have full function of the DVD and nothing with the CD or Vice Versa.

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