Cannot detect??

Negger SG · 2007-10-20T16:06:02+00:00

Looks very complicated. But anyway, gonna bring my laptop to acer hq to see if really can fix it back or not.

Negger SG

1) My computer cannot detect my CD drive... When i go to My Computer, onli got C: drive and A: drive.... Is it anything gotta do with the setting??

2) I tried replacing my dell computer's harddisk with another harddisk from my faulty... How come cannot ar.... Harddisks are also not compatible in different com??

Anyone can help... thks in advance

ndmmxiaomayi SG

1. Cables loose or some software settings that make it can't detect the CD drive.

2. You replace a working hard disk with a faulty one, what do you expect? Laughing

Negger SG

1) Cables loose... I tried with other cable le.. but cannot

2) The computer faulty but I'm dun think is the harddisk faulty... Could it be dell computer cannot accept harddisk not formatted with dell's format disc.... Mr. Green

ndmmxiaomayi SG

1. It could be just the cables. There's a way to plug them so that the drives can be detected...

2. Nah... hard disk technology are the same. If it can't be accepted... either your hard disk from the faulty computer is gone case, or you plug it in the wrong way. There's no way a computer can start without a hard disk.

Negger SG

Ok... let me do some try with other cables then...
My computer did start with that harddisk... Juz that it always come to a page on continue windows normally/ safemode/safemode with networking blah blah... When i choose a option, it will go back to that page again after it continues... Juz like a cycle...

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Windows corrupted. Most likely.

Xcert SG

I think so too. Laughing Mr. Green

allentyb SG

your CD drive hates you for playing too much P O R N disk already

Negger SG

lol, I actually thought i could use the harddisk of that com which could not start up de.... Now using back the original harddisk... So unlucky... thks ndmmxiaomayi

<Precious> SG

mayi has such a great sense of humour..... Very Happy

WiNtEr'SkiLL SG

did u connect the power to the cd crive ?

Negger SG

yup... When i press the eject button... Can work... juz that computer nvr detect...
Er... Sorry for having so many questions, how come change harddisk, window will corrupt one ar Mr. Green

ndmmxiaomayi SG

It's the software that's in the hard disk that's already corrupted, nothing to do with the changing.

kiss_my (_i_) SG

go into bios to check,
if detected thn reformat ur windows.
if not detected thn hardware problem.

turbo_drift SG

Paiseh for bumping this up.

My Acer laptop cannot detect the cd drive but can eject the disc, how? Is it file corrupted?

ndmmxiaomayi SG

.................

Acer laptops CD drive is forever spoilt. Mine is spoilt too. Laughing

turbo_drift SG

Die. I use acer laptop to play games that need the cd one de. Laughing

LatecomerX SG

Buy external one lo.

Or, if you have access to another com, place CD in its optical drive and use Alcohol to read the data in the disc into a disc image. Then just transfer that image to your lappie using thumbdrive or other media and use Daemon Tools to mount the image so that it appears like a real, physical CD on your laptop.

turbo_drift SG

I dun mind buying external one.

But this one how u do? Re-phrase again, my english cmi. Embarassed

LatecomerX SG

No prob. Just treat me dinner if I ever see you on the streets. Twisted Evil

Install the second com with Alcohol 120%. Trial or full or Captain Hook doesn't matter for now.

http://www.alcohol-soft.com/

Insert the game disc into this com and open up the Image Making Wizard. Choose the appropriate datatype for the disc you want to be read, like for example, for Frozen Throne, you will need to use Securom 4 (it's some tech used to protect discs from piracy - didn't work that well anyway). Such info are usually found by Googling something like "alcohol [name of disc]". If you are still unsure, just use General (but this may result in a non-working disc image).

http://dl.latecomerx.com/images/Screenshot_2007-10-20_11-26-52.jpeg

After extracting the disc data and saving the disc image somewhere, copy it to a thumbdrive and plug that into your laptop; copy the disc image over. Install Daemon Tools, which can "transform" disc images into physical discs. After installation, probably requiring a reboot, run the program and left-click on its taskbar on the bottom-right (the one that looks like the logo for PAP) and choose a drive to mount the image on. They will then ask you to browse for a file - select the disc image which you've just transferred. And the cliche "Voila!" comes in, when My Computer shows you a game disc in the virtual CD drive.

http://daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=5

Regarding the Daemon Tools, get the X86 if your Windows is 32-bits/normal, X64 for 64-bits (duh).