Problem with CD-RW-DVD drive.

Question

Hi.   Yesterday I unpacked my Dell 4700 and set it up. I had previously burned some files on to a CD-R from my old machine's Sony CD-RW's drive to transfer into this new machine. When I try to open them from MyComp or Explorer, I *do* see the drive, but no CD in it at all. However, things like game CDs or Driver CDs are seen with no problem, load with np, etc etc.The SW used to record them was Nero, the new machine has Sonic 7.0. I was finally able to get the files over into the new machine by doing it from DOS, which *can* see my files. I went to work and loaded the same CDs into a CD-RW/DVD drive on a Dell 2400 machine there and Explorer *can* see them with no problem.   Now, here's the funny part. The machine was on for most of the day while I was at work, and I was about to post this here, but I decided to just try loading them one more time and they all loaded, weird. So, I figured that since this might repeat itself, I might as well post anyway. I did look through a good 15 pages of this forum and while I did check out the links, I'm not sure that they address exactly my issue (if it still even exists that is).   Anyway, all input is welcome although I would definately prefer useful input ;-)   tia     -A

DELL-Stephen S · Answer

Ash-Ock,   Thank you for visiting the Dell Community Forum.   I am not sure why this would happen, but please post again if you have the same problem and someone may be able to provide further advice.

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