When I use the DVD/CD-RW drive I get several error messages
I recently had the hard drive replaced in my TOSHIBA SATELITE 1805-S254. When I use the DVD/CD-RW drive I get several error messages. When I put a disc (audio, data, DVD) in I get “THE DISC IS CORRUPTED OR WRITTEN IN A FORMAT NOT SUPPORTED BY WINDOWS” error message. Usually I just eject the disc and reinsert it and it runs fine.
If I choose to make an audio CD or send data to the disc, I get “MISSING DRIVE” message. If I use media player to burn a disc it tells me to “CONNECT A BURNER”.
It all worked fine before I replaced the HD. I checked the recovery disc and there is no specific program to install the DVD/CD-RW software. I’m worried that since it stopped burning discs, one of these days it will stop reading them as well. Thanks for your time and help.
The hard drive was replaced and the operating system reinstalled so it’s not software related problem. The laptop still plays audio, data, DVD disks intermittently and it tells me that most likely the IDE controller on the motherboard is fine. I think the DVD/CD-RW drive itself is failing. I doubt the problem is related to the hard drive replacement, it’s just a coincidence. Here’s a Satellite 1800 disassembly guide, just in case if you need it in the future.
January 21st, 2007 at 10:26 am
I have a Toshiba Satellite P25 Series and the DVD Multi Recorder Rewritable will play an actual DVD movie but does not recognize any other type of disc. For instance when trying to download software for my digital camera it does not recognize any disc to be in the drive.
Thank you for any advice you may have.
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Jimi Casey,
I think you have a bad DVD Multi recorder. I’ve noticed that for some reason Satellite P25 drives fail a lot.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:51 am
Hi,I have my sister’s Toshiba Satellite A25-S207 that won’t read DVDs, but CDs work just fine. I think it might have to do with drivers and such, but the Toshiba website said that the player didn’t need any drivers to be recognized in Windows XP. Let me start from the beginning….
The computer originally had Windows XP Home that came with it when purchased, but was seriously infected with trojans and all that great stuff. They gave it to somebody who said they could fix it and when they got it back it was basically worse. DVDs( I tried them all movies and apps)wouldn’t play,viruses were still clearly there, all their files were missing and it was just slow as ever. System restore only went back to the date the guy “fixed” it. The recovery and applications/drivers disc wouldn’t load because it was a DVD. Then I thought that the viruses were possibly responsible for it not working since thats when it started. So I just erased everything and thought I’d be able to start anew from the Recovery DVD. I was wrong. It wouldn’t read at all I kept getting a screen that said :
Client Mac ADDR:00 0039 46 09 D8 GUID: 6618EF00-89B9-178A-8010-CB5273088480
PXE-E53: No Boot Filename received
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM
I didn’t have any other OS on a DVD so I tried a CD of XP PRO and it loaded it up to begin installation. I installed it hoping finally then the recovery DVD would read. It didn’t. I’ve tried the DVDs I use on 2 different drives. They work. The CDs read fine load up and everything. I downloaded a driver I read might help, Ta1dvdramx, but all that did was let me start to play the DVD movies. It would read to the “what would you like to do” screen then I would select “Play with Windows Media Play”, then it would say I needed a DVD decrypter. I’m not worried about playing movies though, I want the Recovery DVD to work. I dug around and found a external DVD drive and hooked that up. YAY the recovery DVD loaded! I selected the option to erase everything an start new, it said it had to restart, it did and just loaded up the XP pro I put on and didn’t recognize the external drive. I went into the thing where you change the boot sequence and put FDD first cause somewhere on here said that was usb devices. That didn’t work either it just loaded windows again. Windows says that the hardware has malfunctioned sometimes, until i restart the drive. Also on the recovery DVD it has an option to install drivers, but when i try to it asks for cd1… only one DVD came with the computer. No cds. i read alot of forums and was about to do a BIOS update, but realized i have no idea what im doing and this isn’t my computer, so i thought i’d ask for some help. It’s very much appreciated.
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Liyan,
I’ve noticed that Satellite P25 notebook DVD drives fail a lot. I don’t know why but they do and they fail exactly as you described. Some drives read CDs but will not read DVDs, other drives will read DVDs but not CDs. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do without a good working drive. The BIOS update in this case will not help. You’ll have to replace the drive.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Sorry to bother you again, but i noticed you typed P25 satellite, but i have an A25, just wanted to make sure theyre were close to the same. and also i have a USB DVD drive that works fine anywhere else and in the laptop except when i need to restart, or play a movie . i just want to get the USB to load during startup but it won’t.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Liyah,
Most older Toshiba laptops are not designed to boot from an external USB DVD drive. The laptop will work just fine with the same USB DVD drive in Windows, but will not allow you to boot from it. Most likely in your case the DVD drive cannot be initialized on the BIOS level. You’ll have to find an internal DVD drive.
For some reason I was thinking about Satellite P25 when I was writing my previous comment.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Thank you so much! I have posted on 4-5 different sites and you are the only one who replied!! If you don’t mind i have just ONE more question. Can i hook up a regular DVD player inside the laptop (well not really just hook it up to the internal guts)? or does it have to be a special lap top one? don’t worry ill leave you alone soon as i will start school for this stuff
January 27th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Liyah,
You cannot hook up a regular DVD player to the internal laptop guts. Can you find another laptop and borrow the DVD drive from it? I think that’s the only option you have if you don’t want to buy a new drive for your notebook. Or you can take the laptop to a repair shop, give them the recovery DVD and explain the situation. May be they can install it for you using their DVD drive.
January 31st, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I disassembled my Toshiba 1800 laptop to clean the insides. I removed the CPU to clean it then reinstalled it. Reassembled everything. Now it turns on, the fan starts but nothing else happens. The hard drive doesn’t start. I didn’t remove it. Nothing on the screen. Can anybody help.
Tks
Marc
February 1st, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Marc,
Did you lock the CPU in the socket? Check if the memory is seated properly.
February 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Hey sorry to bother you again but i was wondering if you knew any DVD drives that would work with the a25-s207 satellite. actually i was wondering if a Sony Viao dvd player would work in my laptop so i could get that recovery disc back on
i googled compatible drives and nothing really came up. Thanx in advance..
February 5th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
I have a sony vaio pcg-r505dck. The computer crashed and a friend dumped the hard drive. Problem is that the dock cd drive isnt seeming to work and I get a “No Operating system” prompt when I turn on the computer. How do I get an OS back on the computer? Is it salvagable?
February 7th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Liyah,
Here are part numbers for drives compatible with a Toshiba Satellite A25 notebook:
CD-RW/DVD-ROM drives
P000367880 Teac
P000367890 Matsushita (Panasonic)
P000378360 Toshiba
P000381090 Teac
DVD-R/-RW drives
P000366780 Toshiba
P000369850 Matsushita (Panasonic)
P000422730 Matsushita (Panasonic)
I’m not sure a Sony Vaio DVD drive will work in Satellite A25,you’ll have to try it.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Hi!
Same problem as most other users! I have a Toshiba Satellite P10 with XP Media Centre. The thing is my DVD -CD-R combo drive is giving me problems. It reads and writes regular CD’S. It also writes DVD’s but it doesnt read DVD’s . What can be done?
Would appreciate your help!
Thanks
February 8th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Ali,
Sounds like a bad drive. You’ll have to replace it.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Hey folks,
I hope you can help me with a problem im having with my cd/dvd drive in my laptop.
When i play certain dvds the audio crackles and video runs really slowly. With some dvds it works fine. Also ripping music from a cd has become painfully slow and burning dvds and cd even slower(used to take 2 mins to burn a 15 track cd, took 20 mins yesterday, i could also burn a full data dvd in about 8 mins, now after 20 mins only 5% is completed).
I had a similar problem before and i uninstalled the drive and re-installed it and that sorted it! Not this time. I think its made it worse! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Rosco
Sys info
Dell Inspiron 9300
cd/dvd drive – Sony DW-Q58A
1.86 GHZ
1 GB ram
cant think of what other info you may need. ps ive tried updating driver already.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Rosco_pk,
You fixed this problem before re-installing the driver, so it could be a software related problem again. Try reinstalling the operating system.
February 21st, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Hi-
I have a problem with my DVD and CD combo disc drive. When I put in any kind of cd blank or with info on it, it does not recognise that there is a disc in the drive, however when I put a dvd in it it will read it, how do i fix this problem?
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Christine,
How to you write data on the CD? Do you use special burning software like Nero, Roxio, etc…? Sorry for asking this question but some people think that it’s enough to put a black CD into the drive and then drag-n-drop files.
Did you try any other CDs, music CDs for example.
In general, if the drive can paly DVDs but will not recognize/read CDs, you have a bad drive.
February 26th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
is there some way to make the laptop read from a CD drive that I took out of a desktop?
February 27th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
John Johns,
I think you’ll need a USB to IDE converter, something like this one I found on PCcables.com
Here’s a description:
I think that’s exactly what you are looking for.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
my cd/dvd dive is not working. i came home one day and i push the button and nothing happens. this has happened before but i just system restored and it was fixed. this time system restore was off so i cant fix it now i already tried disabling and enabling but it didnt work so if sombody could help that would be great.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I own an ACER Travelmate 230 and it’s now about 3 1/2 years old. Just today I tried to use my laptop to play a DVD for the first time in a few weeks, and for some reason, when the DVD was inserted into laptop, the usual XP menu didn’t come up asking me what program to use to own it, and even worse, when I opened PowerDVD the whole laptop crashed. I quickly tried to restart, but the laptop wouldn’t do this either. After several attempts I, as a last resort, took the DVD out of the laptop, and it booted up no problem. I’ve tried uninstalling some more recent programs, but to no avail. Also when the DVD is in the laptop, even when I try to open My Computer, the laptop freezes. I’ve done a full virus scan and there’s nothing. Also there’s no problem with video i’ve downloaded or stream from the internet, this is purely a DVD issue.
Don’t really know what else to try, and any ideas would be great thanks.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Hi:
I read with lots of interest all your correspondence with Liyah, hoping it might answer my question. It comes close but I need a few things explained at a more basic level, if possible.
I have a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504 with a bad CD/DVD drive. I’m anxious to replace it as I installed a new hard drive and new hinges (thanks to your help)not long ago so I have some investment in keeping the old machine going. I thought I had found a refurbished replacement CD/DVD drive for $120 but the company never delivered. All the other prices I found are in the $200s (even for refurbished), which is more than I want to spend for this. There is one company that offers a Panasonic replacement for $49 but that sounds too good to be true (also, there is NO warranty, not even 90 days).
I’m curious about two things: first, is there such a thing as an external CD/DVD drive that would work with my laptop and that might be either less expensive or more powerful/versatile? I’ve tried researching this but most of the explanations presume a greater knowledge than I have. One item I found that I thought might be in this category is SD-R6472
Toshiba DVD Rewriteable Mobile Computer Drive – DVD-Writer (Double-layer) – DVD-RAM/±R/±RW – 8x 4x 8x DVD±RW, 2.4x 10x 8x DVD+R DL, 24x 24x CD+RW, x 2x DVD-RAM – 50-pin EIDE/ATAPI – Internal. However, I’ve been unable to find any information on its compatibility with my latop or whether it is a plug-in as opposed to an installed item.(Don’t know if that “interna;” refers to installation or something else and, of course, the Toshiba website doesn’t say.)
Second, my hard drive is only 40 GB. At the time I had a new hard drive put in, the service people upgraded it from 30 GB. However, I now see that Toshiba offers a 60 GB but I can’t tell if it is compatible with my machine. Am I correct in thinking that (assuming I get a new CD/DVD drive), a bigger hard drive would enable me to view movies without the endless , every few seconds, buffering delays I have now?
Many thanks for this great service,
Jane
March 10th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I have a Toshiba Satellite A15-S127. The DVD CD/Rom went out on laptop and had to replace. Put in new DVD CD/Rom. I put in the same as was orginal in: Model SD-R2412. Replaced and rebooted computer. Computer still does not reconize DVD as a D: or E: drive. When I go to Device Manager it shows that I have a Toshiba MK3021GAS and that it is working properly. I tried to see if there was updated drivers available and still no help.
Need help on getting dvd cd/rom working.
Thanks,
March 13th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Jane,
You definitely can use an external USB DVD drive with this laptop.
Advantage: you can use it with any other computer and it’s relatively cheap
Disadvantage: most likely you cannot boot the laptop from an external USB drive (cannot reload XP from it) because the BIOS wasn’t designed to boot from the external drive
So it’s up to you to decide if you want to use an external USB drive instead of internal one.
If it’s not a SATA drive, it should be compatible. Your laptop should run without any problem even with a larger drive: 80GB, 100GB, 120GB. NOTE: if you buy an external USB DVD drive you might not be able (haven’t tried it myself) to reinstall the operating system from it.
I’m not sure why you have these delays. You shouldn’t have them even with an older hard drive. It’s possible there is another issue with your laptop, maybe software related.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Kerry Crawford,
Maybe there is nothing wrong with the DVD drive and it’s just a software related issue? Did you try boot the laptop from the DVD drive? Try booting from the recovery DVD. If you can boot from it, probably the drive itself is fine.
Check out this solution from Microsoft.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Hi Laptop Freak:
Thanks for the answers to my quesions. I have two follow-ups. First, can you please suggest what software problems might be causing the buffering delays in viewing video? Second, if I can increase the hard drive as much as you say I can then theoretically how long can I keep this laptop going before it’s truly out of date?
THank you again for this terrific forum!
Jane
March 15th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Jane,
I don’t know.
It could be anything and it might take hours to troubleshoot the problem.
It’s already is. Probably it will not run Vista.
It’s totally up to you. If you use this laptop only for browsing the Internet or writing emails, it will never be outdated (I guess). But if you want to use it for image editing, video editing, etc… probably you already need a new computer. It’s up to you to decide if the laptop truly out of date or not.
March 15th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Jane again,
Thanks for the forthright answer on the viability of my laptop. By the way, who REALLY WANTS Vista?
Would you please give me an idea where to start looking for the software problems that are causing the video delays? I live in Panama so have LOTS of time to ferret out the difficulty.
Many tahnks,
Jane
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Hey remember me?
i’m a little further up on this post. I FINALLY got another DVDrom 2 put in my a25-s207 toshiba laptop,but now i get the error “PDE #1 ERROR”. I read something about a firmware update, or a little soldering,and i kinda just wanted to check here before i did anything. Your help is VERY much appreciated. 
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
sorry i meant the error “IDE #1 ERROR” …. oops
April 28th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Hi, i’ve found your website very helpful in solving some problems i had. I have one very big problem however with (i think it’s) my DVD drive on my Toshiba Satellite A45 (about 3.5 years old). Everytime i start my laptop it makes a grinding/whining noise which i think is either coming from the hard drive or the DVD drive. Also whenever the laptop is running and I tilt it a little, it makes the noise as well. Do you know what might be causing this and if there is anything i can replace to fix it? I appreciate your reply
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:04 am
i too am upset at toshiba. (5005-s504 owner here)short and sweet…
same trouble.
cd dvd rom died.
didnt care. no big deal. if i needed to load anything i’d use an external one.
then i lost the OS…oh crap…now what.
the cd dvd drives sell for $180 to $290 US…not a chance in hell will i take a chance with a defunct drive for that price.
what to do? EBAY! found one. got it for $19+10 shipping! YAHOO!
Didnt work. should have known.
same issues…trying to read…trying to read…wiiirrrrrrr. thunk. cachunk. wiiirrrrrrr. thunk. cachunk. wiiirrrrrrr. thunk. cachunk.
has anyone EVER figured out or came forward to explain what in Gods name is wrong with these drives? it’s happening to EVERYONE…or happened to everyone. im one of the last who wont throw the damn thing away eventhough ive gone through 2 pc’s since…i refuse to let it win…lol
Jane Vasarhelyi Says: “There is one company that offers a Panasonic replacement for $49 but that sounds too good to be true (also, there is NO warranty, not even 90 days).”
HELL! who are they? ill try it and drop $50!!!
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
I have a Toshiba Satellite A105, and I was taking a CD out of my CD/DVD-ROM drive, and i accidentally pulled the whole tray out, including the little ribbon (sorry, I dont know the technical term)that attaches to it. I pushed it back in and eventually got the ribbon back in, but when i turned the laptop on, the tray wouldnt come out, and it is locked in there. I dont know if the ribbon came out or what, but nevertheless, it doesnt work anymore. I need some advice on whether I will need to disassemble the laptop or if there is an easier way. Any help is appreciated. Thank you
June 28th, 2007 at 7:05 am
I have Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop. For several months DVD Ram was working well but suddnely it can neither read or write a file. Device manager reports that drivers and device are working properly. Mcfee log reports error accessing device. Acer site has no support. Worst of all I am in Uganda amd here nobody cares about the inside of a laptop for any ant good sense.Well I have for several. Please help.
July 7th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I have a Toshiba SatA45-S150 with combo drive. Last fall noticed couldn’t read it’s own burned CD’s, but works fine in other drives including the ext USB Dvd burner. Cleaning lens+uninstalling the device and reinstall at bootup made it work again. Now same problem. It’s an SD-R2412 and machine is 3.5 year old. Will read DVD’s and other disks burned on other machines. Do you think it’s a failed combo drive? Replacement is $169 and wondering if worth it.Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Walt
July 17th, 2007 at 5:26 am
I HAVE A DELL INSPIRON 6000 WITH BUILT IN DVD/CD-RW. WHEN I CHOOSE TO BURN MY HOME MOVIES AN ICON SAYS DRIVE EMPTY PLEASE INSERT DISC EVEN THOUGH I HAVE A BLANK DVD IN THE DVD/CD-RW.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
MANY THANKS
September 10th, 2007 at 11:21 am
no working dvd rom /cd/r/rw
toshiba 1415 s105
dvd rom cd/r/rw drive sits there with flashing yellow led as soon as I power up
can boot with install disks and nothing happens,still blinks and is set to boot from dvd/cd 1st
one time it worked for a bit with a system restore point change but then failed after a couple of boot ups.
now I really need it to work cause I have a need dll to load HAL error on boot up no xp working.
I’m beginning to think I need a new drive.
when pc would boot I got something about an i/o error with the dvd drive. Trouble shooting produced nothing and the remove and installed failed also.
disgusted in Wa.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Dave LG,
Sounds like a bad drive. I think you’ll have to replace the drive.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Can anyone recommend a (inexpensive?) DVDRW drive for a 1415-S105 which will not produce an IDE #1 error?
November 27th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Sian Jones,
Here’s a list of CD-RW/DVD drive compatible with Satellite 1415.
Part numbers: P000351760, P000352490, P000355040, P000371010. Search on the Internet by the part number and find witch one is affordable for you.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Does anyone know the list of compatible cd cvd rw drive for use with a satellite p25 s509? I am adding myself to the list of disgruntled toshiba owners.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Chris,
Here are optical drives compatible with a Toshiba Satellite P25 notebook:
DVD-CD/RW drives:
K000005520, K000005410, K000012220, K000012230, K000005470, K000005840, K000011590, K000004190
DVD R/RW drives:
K000007470, K000005860, K000010550, K000012830, K000023130, K000013700, K000013700
DVD-RAM drives:
K000000680, K000005870, K000023180
DVD Super Multi drives:
K000013720
You should be find something from this list.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Kerry Crawford, please give me your e-mail cause you have the A15-S127 laptop and I have some questions to you. Thx in advance
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 am
my toshiba satellite 4090dvd/cd will not download an internet server from a disk. i have tried aol and netzero. the little disk symbol comes on the screen with the arrow for a couple of minutes then disappears. i finally found a place in the laptop menus where i could down load several servers from the laptop and got netzero downloaded, but i need aol and it wasnt on the list of servers. i am on dial up and down loading from the net is impossibly slow. it plays a dvd movie, just will not download.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I have been following the thread hoping I could find answer to my laptop problems. So far, everything I read have been very helpful.
Here is my problem with my DVD/CD-RW. My laptop is A75 Toshiba Satellite. The DVD/CD-RW can read original CDs, DVD, and does burn CD with albeit Nero would say it failed, the data accessed from other machine seems ok. It can also burn audio CD. The problem however, the drive won’t read any burned CD-R even those CD-Rs burned from its own drive.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I have a Toshiba Satellite A35, and just like the other people that have posted my DVD/CD-R combo drive will play DVD’s but will not read regular cd’s or burn any cd’s. I have some important software I need to install onto my computer for work and I cant get the drive to read the cd. Is the only answer that my drive has failed and I need a new one or is there a solution that is still out there?
April 12th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I have a COMPAQ PRESARIO SR1900NX Desktop. when I try to copy pictures to a cd the rom says that i need to enter a disk and one is in there, ALSO, when I put a disc in with photos or text documents it syas the disc is blank and I kow that it’s not. And last but not least when I put ANYTHING in the cd drawer it makes a whistling noise, sometimes a faint clanking noise and the just stops and ejects to disc. PLEASE HELP, This is driving me slap crazy. Please don’t get to awfuly technical with me either.
Thanks, beachguppy
July 27th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Hi, I think I have a fairly simple question. I have a MPC Transport T2100 laptop with a CD-RW/DVD drive but no DVD burner. I want to buy a new drive to burn DVD’s. My question is: do I need to buy a MPC brand drive or can any old drive work(like HP, Dell, Sony, etc)? Are they all the same(have the same hook-up) or does it depend on the brand?
Thanks for any help!
Becky
August 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
My Toshiba Satellite a105-s2716 reads and writes CDs okay; reads DVDs okay but no longer reads DVDR disks as having available space to record. Now, I’m not sure how to make back-up diskettes or copy my large files to DVD. Seems that the previous functionality to burn DVDs is gone (either through Roxio or other media management). Is there a setting I’m overlooking or program to run? Or, is it a DVD drive problem?
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
hi
i am using Lenovo Y500 and has MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-85JS
in it. i am unable to write cd’s n dvd’s with it. it’s showing ‘power calibration error’ message every time i start to write.
can u tell me solution for my problem
October 17th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Hi
Toshiba P25 Media Center
The HDD died so i ordered a new one and installed it and used the repair disk to reset to factory standard. Everything is working great except surprise surprise the DVD player.
The laptop will play CDs perfectly. When i try to play DVDs i get a codec error both in WMP and WMC. I downloaded and installed VLC and it played every DVD i tossed in without a problem.
I think it could be an issue with the DVD RAM drivers and the DVD drivers. Im pretty sure there is a toggle somewhere for it. But i cant find it anywhere. Any ideas?
October 31st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I have a Lenovo internal laptop cd-rw drive. I also own a USB to IDE cable adapters for 2.5 and 3.5. My issue is that I ordered the internal laptop drive to connect with these adapters via usb. Little did I know that this would not work with my adapters. It takes a smaller connection as you must know already. I pulled up the web page that I ordered from and it said that the connection is a ATAPI connection. I’ve Googled the hell out of this to find some sort of adapter cable for internal cd-r laptop drives with no luck. Is there a cable of this nature or am I just chasing my own tail here?
Thanks,
Aaron
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I had a missing CD/DVD drive from ‘My Computer’ and couldn’t burn cds or watch dvds, but I was still able to play games that required the cd. After much freaking out and posting on every website imaginable, I called Toshiba. In my case it was a software issue, they were able to talk me thru what to do.
1) go to http://support.toshiba.com
Once the DOS prompt pops up, you’ll have to “press any key” to start and “press any key” to exit
2) Where the search box is, click ‘Express View’
3) Type in this ID “98080671” and change the drop down menu to “Support Bulletin”
4) Click the search button!
5) “CD / DVD drive missing from ‘My Computer’ (Windows Explorer)” should pop up
6) *note if this will work with your Toshiba model* Follow on-screen directions to download “Toshiba Upper/Lower Limit Repair Tool (RmvFltrs.exe).”
7) After saving, unzip, and run! (it’ll look like the old DOS prompt)
9) Restart laptop
10) Check ‘My Computer’ – hallelujah ! it’s there!
If it’s not there after this, then the tech guy told me that it was a hardware issue, and I’d have to bring it in.
Hope this helps!!
December 8th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Hi,
I have a lenovo y500 laptop with Matshita DVD-RAM
UJ-85JS ATA device which reads all the dvds.When a video was burn on a sony dvd-rw 1x-2x through Power2go
software the same device is not recognising the dvd.OS
is windows vista.kindly give solution to me.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
TOSHIBA SATELLITE LAPTOP Owners: TOO many of us have problems with and complaints about the junky MAT.SHIT.A DVD/RW Drives. My A105-S4074 is less than THREE years old, but the burner only worked for A FEW MONTHS. I had to purchase an external burner because Toshiba wanted to charge TOO much to do the replacement. It seems we should somehow circulate a petition then CONFRONT Toshiba. Perhaps they’ll issue a recall to either REPLACE the burners or reimburse costs to those persons who already replaced theirs. OR, maybe we could get help and file a Class-Action Lawsuit. Are there any Attorneys amongst us who would volunteer Pro Bono legal representation? Meanwhile, if someone could PLEASE recommend a decent INTERNAL burner for my A105-S4074, I have someone who would install it for me. I have heard that the LITE-ON Model DS-8A2S A01-OEM (SATA) might work (if I can find one!) THANK YOU, LAPTOP FREAK. We appreciate this forum where we can VENT our frustrations about our Toshiba burner problems!!!