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rick cameron

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Since: Feb 26, 2005
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:35 pm
Post subject: Help! CD-RW drive in a bad state
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Hi, all

I tried to upgrade the firmware on my CD-RW drive (an LG GCC-4520B) and
something went wrong. The drive seems to be invisible to the BIOS and to
Windows, and when I try to do the firmware upgrade, the upgrade app says it
can't find a drive of the right model.

Is there anything to be done at this stage? Would the command-line version
of the upgrade program have a chance of working?

Cheers

- rick

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Help! CD-RW drive in a bad state [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:40:59 GMT, "rick cameron" <rick.cameron@tee ee
el you ess dot en ee tee> wrote:

 >Hi, all
 >
 >I tried to upgrade the firmware on my CD-RW drive (an LG GCC-4520B) and
 >something went wrong. The drive seems to be invisible to the BIOS and to
 >Windows, and when I try to do the firmware upgrade, the upgrade app says it
 >can't find a drive of the right model.
 >
 >Is there anything to be done at this stage? Would the command-line version
 >of the upgrade program have a chance of working?
 >
 >Cheers
 >
 >- rick
 >

Sounds like you killed the drive with the firmware update. If it can't
be seen then I don't think you can fix it. I might be wrong though. Be
prepared to go buy a new drive though.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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