master/slave!

My internal DVD driver just stopped working, kaput, in the middle of the day yesterday. Leaving me high and dry in Madcow Cluster, cut off from light and life and hope.

The device manager claims the device is working properly. The latest driver is installed. The device SPINS. I cleaned my registry. I uninstalled and reinstalled my Secondary IDE, though I think that's where I'm losing control of my senses --

Bottom line: the DVD player does not play DVDs. Which is, you know, one of my favorite features of this device, moreso now since the Great LA Rainstorm of Ought-Five wiped out my actual, um, free-standing DVD player.

You put a DVD in this drive, you launch PowerDVD or whathaveyou, and the thingy says: "no disc in drive d:"

Please, please, PLEASE help me? PLEASE? I'm on AIM as anoniongirl, a flailing, desperate onion girl.

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ETA: Great minds have conspired and consulted to provide me the following diagnostic: my drive is broken.

So, someday, I need to get another internal DVD-ROM drive for a laptop. Preliminary research indicates that buying internal peripherals for laptops is not as easy as you'd hope.

And, yes, G! The rain that rained in my house thoroughly soak-ed and demolish-ed our DVD player. *sniff*

Wild and DVD free, I remain,
Sab.

Doubleplus thanks to rossetti, for a valiant effort!