Samsung SD 616E  Internal DVD Drive
Problem for Samsung SD 616E (729507925578) Internal DVD Drive

DVD combo drive not working




By Yowieking on Sep 22, 2007

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My problem is twofold. I have a Dell 2400 and the DVD drive is not working. device manager says it is working properly nut when I insert a DVD I get "need to insert a disk" dialog box.
Therefor I decided to replace the drive with a perfectly good lite-on combo drive a friend had spare. Replaced the drive and my Dell now would not recognose either the CD or the DVD combo drives. Put the old dysfunstional drive back in, still not working but Dell recognizes the drives again. I guess the DVD is the master and when replaced does not allow for recognition of the slave(CD). What are my options?
Comments:

Sep 23, 2007

- Thanks for responding pcmaster, you were absolutely correct. It was the jumpers, however I don't quite get it. On the original setup both drives (Samsung CD and DVD) were set to cable select, so I set the replacement DVD drive to cable select too. When I set one to be master and one as slave the computer immediately recognized the new hardware and all is fine.
Thanks for responding
Randy Bulpin

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Tried the "troubleshooter" and then disabled and then enabled the devise with no success. Strange that when I disabled the device and retarted my computer the driver was there again without my having to enable it. It is a Samsung SD-616E internal DVD drive. Any suggestions?-   tdfore

Best Solution

posted on Sep 23, 2007
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PcExpert

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Did you set your jumpers correctly? How about using a different power Cable? Different Data Cable?

If all fails try diagnosing the problem.

DOWNLOAD HIREN BOOT CD, WRITE THE ISO TO CD THEN BOOT FROM IT
http://rapidshare.com/files/33987018/NYU...

Includes HDD Diagnostics for these companies
Hard Disk Tools:
- Hard Disk Diagnostic Utilities
- Seagate Seatools Desktop Edition 3.02
- Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools
- Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04f
- Maxtor PowerMax 4.23
- Maxtor amset utility 4.0
- Maxtor(or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1
- Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.61
- Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0
- Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 2.02
- Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28
- IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.08
- IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 2.03
- Gateway GwScan 3.15
- ExcelStor's ESTest 3.80
- MHDD 4.6
- WDClear 1.30
- Toshiba Hard Disk Diagnostic 2.00b
- SeaTools for Dos 1.08
- HDD Regenerator 1.51 - to recover a bad hard drive
- Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57 - Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.
- Norton Disk Doctor 2002 - a tool to repair a damaged disk, or to diagnose your hard drive.
- Norton Disk Editor 2002 - a powerful disk editing, manual data recovery tool.
- Active Kill Disk 3.1 - Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.
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Hope this helps
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