Date: 04/19/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: no keywords

Everything worked fine the day before...

My E:\ drive (Pioneer DVD-117R DVD-ROM) tray won't eject without jamming a paperclip into the manual eject hole, but I can hear the mechanism whirring when I hit the eject button. Popped some media (DVD, Audio CD, Data CD) in there, but nothing reads.

My F:\ drive won't read anything but DVDs. It's an aftermarket DVD-RW drive (Sony DRU-800A) that I installed myself. Thing is, I'm locked out of playing DVDs because of copyright protection.

Tried Googling a remedy, and tried powering down, unplugging everything on the tower, prying the stubborn Sony covers off to dettach and reattach the cables. Blew a ton of dust away with some canned air.

Wanted to dissect the E:\ drive, but I read the warning about laser radiation and thought otherwise.

I can see them listed in my available drives in Explorer (no change. I could do that before.)

It's driving me nuts. I wanna listen to and burn new media I got (my little 80GB hard drive is filling up again...)

Running Windows XP Home Edition. What can I do aside from paying outrageously for someone else to do it?

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