Hi, I've had my T60 for around 3 weeks. A few ago the CD drive
completely stopped working, the prescese of a CDROM in the drive is not
detected.

I also have Linux (PCLOS) installed. When I boot into Linux the drive
is not even shown.


To make sure this is not a software corruption issue, I made a Linux
Live CD (using another machine of course) and tried to boot from the
CDROM. This also failed and the system booted into the default Windows
instead.


Are there ways I can make sure that this is a hardware problem with the
drive ? if this is confirmed then what is the best approach then ?

Another problem with the laptop is that i'm unable to boot the machine
using a linux USB key (made bootable using syslinux) even though i
correctly select USB devices to boot before the drive.

Could this problem be related to the cd drive problem as well ? I did
do a bios upgrade a week or two ago.


Any help would be appreciated.

If you have a friend with a system that uses the same drive; you could
try swapping it into their system. You could try the diagnostic software
that should be installed on the Windows partition; on my T40 it's PC
Doctor. If your system was purchased new, it should be under warranty. A
call to EZ-Serv may result in them sending a replacement.

Phil Sherman


sdac wrote:
> Hi, I've had my T60 for around 3 weeks. A few ago the CD drive
> completely stopped working, the prescese of a CDROM in the drive is not
> detected.
>
> I also have Linux (PCLOS) installed. When I boot into Linux the drive
> is not even shown.
>
>
> To make sure this is not a software corruption issue, I made a Linux
> Live CD (using another machine of course) and tried to boot from the
> CDROM. This also failed and the system booted into the default Windows
> instead.
>
>
> Are there ways I can make sure that this is a hardware problem with the
> drive ? if this is confirmed then what is the best approach then ?
>
> Another problem with the laptop is that i'm unable to boot the machine
> using a linux USB key (made bootable using syslinux) even though i
> correctly select USB devices to boot before the drive.
>
> Could this problem be related to the cd drive problem as well ? I did
> do a bios upgrade a week or two ago.
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>