On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Try cleaning your drive with an optical drive cleaning kit. Such
kits do help. It could be that the laser device in the drive has
dust on it.
If that doesn't work, check if you can boot from a USB stick.
If you can't boot from a USB stick, then replace the optical drive.
It is not so expensive as it may seem.
yes, it was the drive itself. i pulled an external usb sony dvd
burner out of storage and, sure enough, it worked fine. drat.
rday
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