The cd-rom on my sony vaio pcv-rx370ds is not recognized by the bios or it fails worked fine yesterday 11/16/10 Thank you for any help

cd-rom drive does not recognized a recordable CD if you have no cd-writer.

This should be a quick fix. How old is the machine you are trying to update? Do you know if the jumpers on the drive are in order? Is it a SATA or ATA drive? Did a CD or Disk come with your drive? Check jumpers on your old drive and make sure the jumpers on the new drive are similar ( master, slave, cs ). Usually leaving on Master is best. Is anything else on this line, like a CD or DVD? I think you'll get it from here.

can you give me the name of the driver and i'll get you a site to download it

Have you tried burning a CD in the new drive? Because the drive is a DVD it will always be recognised as a DVD, but should work perfectly well with CDs both playing and recording.

If it fits in the slot it can be used.

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please check first the bios settings check the boot priority select the 1st boot priority to cd or dvd rom then exit and save while inserted the bootable cd..

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reinstall os.bios should be preset to boot from cd/dvd but if not power on then press delete key or escape key till bios loads-in boot opt. select cd/dvd drive first boot.put os disk in drive and restart when asked to press key to boot from cd do so.follow inst. instructions.after insall detects previous version of xp select repair (r key) and follow inst. should solve startup problem without losing data.if not reinstall os but select leave files intact instead of format or you will lose all files.

since she formatted the hard drive there is no drivers for your cd rom to work

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I would fold the inbuilt keyboard back and use an external keyboard.

you should be able to exit and save changes, which my guess is you are exiting without saving the changes. theres is a way around this, by pressing either F8, F9, F10, or F12 to access the boot menu, and then you can boot from cd to install your linux operating system