thefryster

Yes it is an exact replacement, the original drive also displays the same erratic behaviour. The drives show in device manager and say that they are working the trouble comes when a disk is put in. There is definately power going into it but it just cant seem to read any disks.

After downloading and running the drivers the problem still remains. I am still unable to use the drive.

Hi, I don't have the MOBO cd, the PC is an Acer Aspire 7520 laptop.

I dont think so, only what came with Vista and then updating the drivers through device manager.

Hi, ok it's a Hitachi LG Super Multi DVD Rewriter Model: GSA T20N (ATAKKO)

Hi all, After fitting a new hard drive and reinstalling Vista, the cd/dvd drive just did'nt work in any way. I bought a replacement and it managed to read a cd but gave some ridiculous running times (one was 15.54) and it also showed that there was anly two tracks on the disk even though it was a 15 track album. The drive will not read dvd's or game disks either. Nor will it boot from the cd drive. I tried opening audio tracks from the cd in iTunes and it showed the correct tracks only with odd running times again. I ran diagnostics and it showed the drive was working but it was unable to read the cd. Oh, and I also did the remove upper/lower filters thing and I've been through the fix it section on the Microsoft page. Any help would be great.