So I have been having a few problems with my DVD drive lately I realised the lens was dirty so I cleaned it and it seemed to be working perfectly then. That was before I formatted my laptop. I also pulled it out of my laptop and cleaned the sockets. I plugged it back in and it seemed to be working like normal then.
Now I have formatted my laptop with xp, after I installed what updates I could by editing the register. The drive was working fine after this point. I then installed Ubuntu, thinking that sooner or later I am going to have to make a switch as xp is getting old, and I would like to learn how to use a Linux operating system. And go down this root in the future as they are getting better and better, I think sooner or later games will be supported too and that is probable the only reason I use windows any more par its what I am use too.
Basically I did a duel install and after I loaded up xp to install some software and a game. Basically to finish sorting XP out after the format, and I can't use the DVD drive now.
I checked device manager and it doesn't even register the drive, nothing at all shows, no name nothing. I checked the bios, and it shows the DVD drive, I then checked it loaded disks via putting in the xp disk and seeing if I could get to the format menu. It worked fine. I checked in Ubuntu the DVD Rw seems to be reading disks fine in their at least I can see the files on the disk.
I noticed that the partition drives for Linux do not have letters assigned when I look in 'disk management' on XP. Possible because I installed them on a different format to NTFS, I basically did what Linux recommended. I may try uninstalling Ubuntu and see if that fixes it. And if so install it again in a NTFS partition, however I would prefer do it in the format they recommend, as I assume this is more secure. Is there a way to assign drive letters to Logical Linux partitioned drive as I think this might be the problem?
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks
Now I have formatted my laptop with xp, after I installed what updates I could by editing the register. The drive was working fine after this point. I then installed Ubuntu, thinking that sooner or later I am going to have to make a switch as xp is getting old, and I would like to learn how to use a Linux operating system. And go down this root in the future as they are getting better and better, I think sooner or later games will be supported too and that is probable the only reason I use windows any more par its what I am use too.
Basically I did a duel install and after I loaded up xp to install some software and a game. Basically to finish sorting XP out after the format, and I can't use the DVD drive now.
I checked device manager and it doesn't even register the drive, nothing at all shows, no name nothing. I checked the bios, and it shows the DVD drive, I then checked it loaded disks via putting in the xp disk and seeing if I could get to the format menu. It worked fine. I checked in Ubuntu the DVD Rw seems to be reading disks fine in their at least I can see the files on the disk.
I noticed that the partition drives for Linux do not have letters assigned when I look in 'disk management' on XP. Possible because I installed them on a different format to NTFS, I basically did what Linux recommended. I may try uninstalling Ubuntu and see if that fixes it. And if so install it again in a NTFS partition, however I would prefer do it in the format they recommend, as I assume this is more secure. Is there a way to assign drive letters to Logical Linux partitioned drive as I think this might be the problem?
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks