SH-W162Z - wont read any discs of any kind!!!

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Samsung Writer Discuss, SH-W162Z - wont read any discs of any kind!!! at CD and DVD Writers forum; Can somone please help me out, my burner wont recognize any disc of any kind...blanks, burned, bought dvd/cds. nothing at all. i've had made no hardware or software changes to my pc. i upgraded the firmware to TS01 in hopes that it would fix the problem but that didnt happen.

nitropwd (New on Forum): Posts: 2; Posted: 15-04-2007

Can somone please help me out, my burner wont recognize any disc of any kind...blanks, burned, bought dvd/cds. nothing at all. i've had made no hardware or software changes to my pc. i upgraded the firmware to TS01 in hopes that it would fix the problem but that didnt happen. if anyone has any suggestions i would appreciate it greatly.

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mciahel (Senior Moderator): Posts: 12,650; Posted: 15-04-2007

Hi and welcome!

To sort out issues of your operating system, please try to boot from that drive using a bootable CD and/or DVD. My personal favourite is Knoppix, but a Windows install CD would also work. Please make sure, that your drive is set as first boot device in BIOS setup (check your computer or mainboard manual for further information).

Michael

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nitropwd (New on Forum): Posts: 2; Posted: 18-04-2007

those settings are already done to my system, it skipped passed the 'boot from cd' line and went straight to starting windows

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mciahel (Senior Moderator): Posts: 12,650; Posted: 18-04-2007

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Originally Posted by nitropwd

those settings are already done to my system, it skipped passed the 'boot from cd' line and went straight to starting windows

At least my W2k CD waits few seconds to let me press a key in order to boot from CD. If I don't press a key, the system continues booting from the HDD.
That's why I prefer Knoppix (or an old Win98 CD).

Michael

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