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hi,
I have a T400 Lenovo thinkpad


I have bought a Lenovo Thinkpad - DVD CD RW Optical Disk Drive AD-7910S ... in the drives section of my computer it says dvd rw drive D: when I right click go to properties it says cd rom drive and when I insert a dvd it doesn't read is there any soloution ive updated firmware to 1d1 I think it was 1d0 beforehand ... thanks I have searched forums there seems to be a few probs regarding this drive .. but non I can find with same issue as this .. im using windows 8 pro maybe this is an issue also im running 32 bit on a 64 bit system (I think)

Hi,
can you boot liveCD/liveDVD from this drive?

the drive is faulty as its sporadic in reading the discs sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't
cheers for the reply

My point was to test whether it's not software-related (that's why I asked for live bootable media)
Anyway best drives are always Liteons, sadly they don't make any laptop drives, however there's compatible part Panasonic UJ-862s for Lenovo Tx00/Wx00.
LG make great screens, but terrible drives - most of them are faulty by design.

Try this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271187267330

Hi

thanks for the input ..
the drive has worked twice but is intermittent and decides not to sometimes it also left a mark on the edge of the disk after burning I bought the drive from ebay and have since been refunded the drive you put in your post is the same drive I bought .. I will have to get another or may even get an external drive then I can use elsewhere as well

cheers

It's probably the best idea - get yourself HDD caddy instead of DVD drive - no idle consumption (DVD drive adds about 1.5W) and 2nd HDD really comes in handy. External DVD drive is probably the best solution - choice is wider, my recommendation would be LiteOn eTau108 slim drive