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You will need to purchase a new CD-Rom drive, these can be purchased very cheaply at local computer shops and online. (Try pricewatch.com or newegg.com). Installing a drive is very easy, somewhat decent directions can be found at:


http://www.cheap-computers-and-parts.com/cheap-computer-parts-installation-guides/hard-drive-cdrom-floppy-installation-guide.html


I hope all of this helps. I have had 2 cdroms go out in my moms computer, and even found a replacement at a thrift store for $5 and it works fine.

Make sure to check the cables inside are fully connected, I know it sounds lame, but sometimes the easist solution is the best. Also take it out and try it on another computer if you can, that will tell you where the problem is, CDROM or system. Try switching it to another cable connection too (if you know how to do this properly).

If you can't fix it, just make sure you don't buy a cheap *** one, I bought one for $50 a few years back (when they were normally like $100-200) and will loath it forever, damn thing just could not sync with the computer because of power down feature, so the system would request data, it would spin up, and the system would give up, it would have the data, and then the system tried again, but by now since the system gave up it powered down and it all started over, sometimes I had to reboot. It was just sad. And yes, I got its new drivers, even emailed the tech support, they basically said it was just a feature of the drive, arg!

While you are at it, why not just buy a dvd-burner and you can burn up to 4.7gigs of **** onto a disc! They are cheap as hell, I got mine for $150 CND, does every media type and came with great software.

Edited, Sat Jan 24 08:44:21 2004 by Ralluwen

Edited, Sat Jan 24 08:45:54 2004 by Ralluwen

hm ... i'd recommend a cd/dvd combo. You can read and write r/rw +/-

You can't burn back up ff11 cds. Not possible :P ( or was that back up the whole game so you don't have to update from the beginning ? *shrugs ).

optical drives are getting cheaper atm :) especially cdrws. But you'd also want to be able to play dvds thats why i said to get a combo :) and also theres 2 dvd formats the - and the + =^-^=;

and to top things up you'd be happy being able to back your stuff up on cd =^-^=;

e.g. to store your animes/music on cds and keep your hard drive space free so you can play final fantasy 11 without laging heh.

Edited, Sat Jan 24 12:40:37 2004 by MoogleStiltzkin

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