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I have a Sony PCGA-CD51. It is an external CD Rom drive meant to b
used with Sony Vaio PCG-N505 series notebooks which come installe
with windows 98. It connects via a type 2 PC card slot. I opened th
housing of the drive and installed a toshiba DVD ROM drive. The uni
worked well in reading both CD and DVDs
I then upgraded the OS on the notebook to windows XP. Since I di
this, my external drive will ony read DVD disks. When I insert a C
ROM disk, it spins in the unit for a while and then stops. Window
says theres no disk in the drive. The only way I can install new cd
is by burning an image to a dvd-r. I even tried putting back the ol
CD ROM drive in the unit, but it still fails. I suspect I need
driver or patch to get this unit to work fully with Windows XP
Help Please.. :crybaby
used with Sony Vaio PCG-N505 series notebooks which come installe
with windows 98. It connects via a type 2 PC card slot. I opened th
housing of the drive and installed a toshiba DVD ROM drive. The uni
worked well in reading both CD and DVDs
I then upgraded the OS on the notebook to windows XP. Since I di
this, my external drive will ony read DVD disks. When I insert a C
ROM disk, it spins in the unit for a while and then stops. Window
says theres no disk in the drive. The only way I can install new cd
is by burning an image to a dvd-r. I even tried putting back the ol
CD ROM drive in the unit, but it still fails. I suspect I need
driver or patch to get this unit to work fully with Windows XP
Help Please.. :crybaby