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I have a 52 speed cdrom on a p4 with 640mgs of ram and a whole bunch of other irrellavant crap that makes for a very well rounded machine.Anyway my question is the cdrom seam not to want to refresh the name of the disk.in other words i can open thedisk and read the information accordingly but the title remains the same as the disk i removed.For instance i placed a copy of a disk(Gothic_d2) in the drive and it worked fine, unfortunatly the drive now insists all disk are gothic, even tho i can run and install apps from this drive no matter whatr disk i use it says it is gothic, tried f5 refresh,and reboot anyother ideas???

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by fred07

Please try a cdrom lens cleaner disk. It sounds like the laser is not reading the initial part of your cd's. Radio shack has an inexpensive one and it happens to be the one I use. You did not mention the age of the cdrom. Possibly it is dieing on you. Try the cleaner, If it doesn't help, get new cdrom. If cdrom under a year old go for the RMA for a replacement.

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