Macca

austweed · 10-18-2008, 02:52 PM

I ve an Acer Aspire 5100 after loading a telstra broadband setup disk my laptop wouldnt recognise my optical drive, I checked everything to the point of I crashed my laptop , so I recovered from scratch in this process it seem to load everything including drivers for cd/dvd drive, and even shows it in my computer, but says there is no hardware attached if I try to use it.

**TriggerFinger** · 10-18-2008, 05:45 PM

Try deleting upper/lower filters.

austweed · 10-19-2008, 12:11 AM

When I tried that there was only an upper filter showing , so I deleted that and still no good. The light on the drive flicks etc

**TriggerFinger** · 10-19-2008, 01:55 AM

Have you tried booting from the CD drive? Get Knoppix and boot from CD drive.

10-18-2008, 02:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
austweed Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3 OS: Vista	Macca I ve an Acer Aspire 5100 after loading a telstra broadband setup disk my laptop wouldnt recognise my optical drive, I checked everything to the point of I crashed my laptop , so I recovered from scratch in this process it seem to load everything including drivers for cd/dvd drive, and even shows it in my computer, but says there is no hardware attached if I try to use it.

10-18-2008, 05:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,853 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Macca Try deleting upper/lower filters. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

10-19-2008, 12:11 AM	#3 (permalink)
austweed Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3 OS: Vista	Re: Macca When I tried that there was only an upper filter showing , so I deleted that and still no good. The light on the drive flicks etc

10-19-2008, 01:55 AM	#4 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,853 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Macca Have you tried booting from the CD drive? Get Knoppix and boot from CD drive. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE