hi. i've got a problem. here's what happend:
a cd shattered in my dvd drive. its an anus quiettrack. at first when it shattered i tried to get as much pieces out as possible.i inserted a cd to see if it still works. it still worked but heres the thing, the dvd drive kept going in and out just like that. so i shut down. i had some problems booting after that incident.it takes really loong. and when i do get it to boot and load windows. all tasks that i try to do does not respond. so i shut down again and pull the power cord out and then the sys. booted as normal. oh yea, the drive would not open at all at this point. so i took it out and undid the screws at the bottom of the drive and cleaned out the pieces until i couldnt hear any sounds made by the flints. i put it back together and still it does not respond and open (i tried the manual open with the paper clip by the way).
with it plugged in, the system takes like 10 minutes just to booting and when windows does load... it does not respond.


what should i do???

help!!

I should imagine the easiest thing to do is replace the drive, tiny bits will have flown off inside at speed and maybe damaged beyond repair

I an a bit hestant 2 replace it because its new. Any advice on what i can possible do to revive it.

If the simple fact that with this drive connected it affects the performance of your computer I'd have to agree with brain_damage that it is irrevocably damaged and probably not a good idea to leave it connected.

You might try returning it but having opened it would revoke most warranties.

Okay.It had a sata port.do you think da other kind of optical port will work? I saw a power cord that looks the same as the ones in the other type of port.

if the drive is damaged it will not matter how it's connected the internals are still the same.

I'm asking this because i went looking for dvd drives and found that sata ports are more expensive so i was thinking of getting the old type of ports. And wonder he that wire that you attach to the drive and motherboard would be the same.

No.

You can get adapters but by that time you're paying the same price for a lesser product.

Get a SATA drive. They are not much more.


But if your motherboard has an IDE port then of course you can use it.

I would think if a SATA drive was installed then there would not be IDE ports.

not necessarily, a lot of motherboards still come with 1 IDE port, my gigabyte has 1 IDE and 4 SATA II spots, and a biostar board I ordered for my brother has an IDE and 2 SATA II ports, a lot of mobos still come with IDE, both my optical drives are IDE right now cuz i couldnt afford SATA drives when i built my machine and I had perfectly functional IDE drives. my HD is SATA II but not optical. I agree though if you need to replace you should go SATA, when I replace my optical drives they will definitly be SATA. no sense downgrading from SATA to IDE.

I agree that most motherboards on the market still carry one IDE port.

It is manufactured computers that have left them off to save a few cents.

Dell's new computers are exclusively SATA. These are Dell motherboards.

My guess was that if the original drive was SATA there was no choice.

But I could be wrong.