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Ok heres the thing.. a friend of mine asked me to help him burn a DVD.. and before I could even help him he told me he just did a firmware update.

Of course I had to ask him if he had any programs opened and stuff like that and the thing is.. He had winamp, msn, mirc, explorer opened and was chatting during the update AND he also had a DVD in the drive...

from personal experiences I can tell it's really bad, now his DVD won't even read blank DVD-R's and well.. can't read pretty much anything

Now I don't remember the model name and all that but is there any way he can restore his drive to the original drivers or does he absolutely have to replace it? thanks

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he'll have to reflash the drive.

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Definately reflash the drive first in a Dos eviorment using the manufacturers un tampered firmware. Here is a god place to start (www.rpc1.org) they have the manufacturers firmware updates as well as all the modified firmwares. Once again I stress doing it in DOS with a boot disk



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