DVD Writer on my Laptop crapped out again
I am receiving the same spindle test failed message. I guess I would have to get it replaced again. And this is the first time I am trying to use it after getting it replaced earlier. And that was the first time I was trying to use the drive after getting the notebook itself!
Dell did replace the drive. But they checked out the problem more thoroughly this time around. I thought it was rather clear that there was a problem when Vista just refused to accept the drive and threw it out as soon as I tried accessing it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 08:09 am
I think your Inspiron laptop has IDE optical drive. Go to Device Manager> IDE/ATAPI controllers. Since your laptop has a SATA HDD now, there will be only one IDE channel called PRIMARY IDE channel. Double click that, go to Advanced option and select DMA if applicable. If you have more than one IDE channel. Repeat the same procedure for that too. It will ask for a restart, do that. You can fix the same problem by deleting the IDE channels from device manager too.
Please ignore if you’re already aware of this. Generally, failure rates of ODDs in laptops are very high but this is one of the major reason behind it. It is possible that there is nothing wrong in the drive. Give it a try
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
its a hardware error…