I've experienced DVD drives that don't read particular DVD media that I burn on other drives. Sometimes fixable by either burning the DVD slower, burning in another drive, or using another type of DVD media, even DVD-RW. Sometimes also fixable by running my finger around the spindle hole or whistling that machine tune from Close Encounters. Another workaround I've used is to obtain a reliable DVD drive and place it in a 133.350mm USB to IDE casing. This requires BIOS support for boot from USB attached DVD. On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:42:02PM -1000, david wrote: > Or maybe I should just extract the hard drive from the laptop, put it in > my external USB drive housing, install to that from the other laptop, > then put it back ... Been there, done that. Only in desperation. The connectors on hard drives have a limited design lifetime in terms of mating and removal. Your approach sounds good ... find if there is another installation method. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
