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Thinkpad r40 will not detect cd drive

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jetblack357   11-26-2008 at 05:26:42 AM

My thinkpad r40 will not detect cd drives in the ultra bay but it will detect a floppy drive in the bay and I want to know if somebody has had this same problem and knows how to fix it and if someone tells me to get a new laptop i cant because im 15 and am not able to get a job yet. The problem is not the cd drive because i have used multiple cd drives all of them working they will power on and the disks will spin but it will not boot off a cd and windows does not detect them.


Message edited by jetblack357 on 11-26-2008 at 05:36:22 AM
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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   11-26-2008 at 05:04:51 PM
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So how do you know they work if you can't use them?

Sounds like a dead drive. Where'd you get them?

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jetblack357   11-26-2008 at 09:43:11 PM
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Another r40 uses them fine and its not disabled in the bios or anything like that and i have the bios updated to 1.33. Thats how i know.


Message edited by jetblack357 on 11-26-2008 at 09:44:32 PM
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