First off I don't know what topic this should be under so I thought it to be most closely related to an HD....Once upon a time I had a 44X CD-ROM drive. I went to go install a game called Balder's Gate. This game was 6 cd's! Well when it was installing the 5th cd the setup kind of crashed on me. All of what it had copyed to my system was gone? Its like it automatically deleted it. Anyway, I decided to install it again the same thing happened to I was like whatever screw it. Then I noticed whenever I read ANYTHING from this 44X cd-rom drive my computer would get really slow and really lagged. You know the usual high pitched sound of the cd-rom spinning the cd at an ultra fast speed? Guess what. I didn't hear anything, instead when I put my ear up against it I heard just soft clicking and scratching sounds, it sort of reminded me of the sounds that came out of slower cd-rom drives such as 4X, 6X 8X anything above that you can kind of hear. So I was wondering what was going on. I put that same cd (not the game) into my burner and it read the data (copying a large file from cd to hd) a million times faster and I heard the high pitched sounds which was reading at 40X......Now I was like what's going on and that's when I noticed that I had no cd-rom drive in my computer (the icon) I pressed the eject button and it didn't open the cd-tray. WOH my cd-rom is dead. I instantly thought was it balders gate? So being I'm so stupid I decided to install balder gate with my burner it crashed on disk 5 but my burner still reads at normal speeds so I was like I'm not trying this again I don't want my burner to die. I took out a 40X cd-rom drive out of my mom's machine which was working fine and popped it in my computer....I now have a fast cd-rom drive......But stupid old me test out Balder's Gate again and installed it...THE SAME THING HAPPEND... my cd-rom drive doesn't read at 40 it reads at like 4 again....but this time its not dead.
Wasn't the sole purpose of a cd-rom drive to read data? Is there a way to fix it like opening it up or something? I don't want to buy a new drive but I want it reading normal again. Its a complete hardware thing I'm sure of it. Lets just think next time I go to install windows. Will it take literally several days? Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks
Wasn't the sole purpose of a cd-rom drive to read data? Is there a way to fix it like opening it up or something? I don't want to buy a new drive but I want it reading normal again. Its a complete hardware thing I'm sure of it. Lets just think next time I go to install windows. Will it take literally several days? Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks
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