OT: CD drive died! Help please!

[Renegade 13]

Thanks for the advice Thermodyne, I'll do that.

[bearclaw]

okay, now.

Apparently, since R13 originally posted his troubles, now my CD-RW/DVD combo drive on my laptop is do the EXACT same thing!!!

I drove through the town R13 lives in last week... I think it's spreading. Unfortunatly, in my laptop it's not quite as simple a repair but I'm heading to a computer store today to look at the options.