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The 4x drive does not support CDR or CDRW media. I would suggest using a
newer CD ROM to access these disks.

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"J.R. Allas" <jrallas@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>     I had a similar problem with an Acer CD-ROM drive.  I
> suddenly could not read CD's I could read previously, and
> those CD's that were intermittent didn't work at all.  Since a
> CD-ROM drive is just like an audio CD Player, I took the
> CD-ROM drive apart (long out of warranty) and with a
> cotton swab, I cleaned the optic very lightly with some
> Compact Disc Cleaning Fluid which came with a CD Cleaner
> I bought years ago.  After that, the CD-ROM drive had no
> problem accessing every CD I own.
>     Note:  I do not suggest doing this with power applied
> to the drive as the laser can cause eye damage.  Be very
> careful when cleaning the lens.  Let the cleaning solution
> do the work.  You just need to swab it and maybe even
> lightly swirl it on the lens to remove dust particles.  I have
> resurrected one CD-ROM drive, and one boom box CD
> Player doing this.
>     Of course, your CD-ROM drive may be too old and unable
> to read CD-R's or CD-R/W's.  You'll have to check the
> manufacturer's specs on that.  Good Luck!
> --
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> "Esa Pikkarainen" <epikkara@ktk.oulu.fi> wrote in message
> news:3A2D51D4.EDCD590C@ktk.oulu.fi...
> > What could I do with my old Creative Quadspeed CD drive to make it read
> > new data CD_roms? Especially CD's burned in our universitie's computer
> > center are usually too difficult for it. Sometimes it can start to read
> > them but most often not. Sometimes it helps if I put the CD in and start
> > CD-player or Quick-CD - then the drive "finds" the disk. If it has ones
> > found the disk then it will go on reading it without problems until I
> > turn the computer of. Then sometimes it will go days that I cannot make
> > it read the same disk again. This is strange, because is inability is
> > not absolut, but sometimes it can be "faked" to do it.
> > I think I have updated the drivers when I installed Windows 95. I s
> > there any directions I could start to search for solution?
> > (or must I start to save maney for new drive???)
> > Thanks
> > Esa Pikkarainen
>
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