Sunday, December 9, 2012
Weekend Crapup
Mostly broke and bored this weekend. Did a little Christmas shopping. Little is all I am doing this year.
Seems like my cd burner has crapped the bed. It knows a cd is there but that is it. Does not read it or even acknowledge. Does not recognize it in the system any more. Now I have pictures I have to send to the cloud to save. About 14GB worth of shots. Not sure if I should replace it or get myself a laptop and let this computer die a slow death.
Warm all weekend. Hardly winter yet.
Who wants to wallpaper my dining room?
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Good Queen.
Will the cd drawer slide out? If not, there should be a very small hole somewhere in the face of the drawer. Straighten a paper clip and push it into the hole and when you feel pressure, keep on pushing. This is the emergency release for the drawer and once it pushes as far as it will go, use a fingernail or small flat screwdriver and slip it in along the edge of the drawer and the drawer should pull out so you can reach your cd. Usually when you do this, reboot the PC and the cd will start operating again. If not, open PC and make sure cables are attached. A new burner should be less than $30 if you need it.
Did some more investigating.
The drive was gone. Did not show up in "my computer". Found out someplace along the line that one of Microsoft's updates changed the registry. Had to go in the registry, delete a file, reboot and all things are good. You would think that they would fix that in another update.
All good for now. Now time to copy to disc.
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