Comments on: DVD Writer on my Laptop crapped out again http://sushubh.net/2533-dell-dvd-writer Sushubh's Blog Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:16:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sushubh http://sushubh.net/2533-dell-dvd-writer#comment-387005 Sushubh Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:25:43 +0000 http://sushubh.net/?p=2533#comment-387005 its a hardware error... its a hardware error…

]]> By: sushubh http://sushubh.net/2533-dell-dvd-writer#comment-426608 sushubh Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:25:43 +0000 http://sushubh.net/?p=2533#comment-426608 its a hardware error... its a hardware error…

]]> By: Sourabh http://sushubh.net/2533-dell-dvd-writer#comment-386952 Sourabh Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:09:58 +0000 http://sushubh.net/?p=2533#comment-386952 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 :) 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 :)

]]> By: Sourabh http://sushubh.net/2533-dell-dvd-writer#comment-426607 Sourabh Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:09:58 +0000 http://sushubh.net/?p=2533#comment-426607 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.<br><br>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 :) 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 :)

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