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older HP d v6 (dv6910us) cd/dvd issue

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addoraa

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Have been working on friends old dv6 laptop and the cd/dvd(PATA)is not recognized in either 'my computer' or 'device manager'. How is the best way to tell if the interface is bad or the actual drive. So far I have inserted a known working cd/dvd and still got nothing, but that drive did not have hp firmware so I'm not sure it would be recoginized anyway. I do not have an external pata cd/dvd enclosure to try the drive in only a sata enclosure.

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See if the drive is recognized in BIOS. Try setting master/slave manually and cable select to see if there's a difference. Had the same thing on a friend's system, old PC (P3B-F) + new device. They had a separate P-ATA card as well which somewhat complicated things.
 
Slammy thanks much for the suggestion, but i'm not sure I can master/slave with the drive because it is a laptop drive. I should have mentioned that in my original post, but I will look in the BIOS regardless.
 
Can you boot for the DVD?
If you can, then it is that lower and upper filter issue, if not it is hardware.
 
Sounds to me like the laptop's optical drive needs to be replaced.
 
No, cannot boot from the drive either. I can hear it try to spin up and the light will flicker but that is about it. I am not seeing it in BIOS either. When booting and choosing boot options it will not show me an option to boot from the cd/dvd either. I'm assuming a dead drive vs bad interface.
 
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