Hi all,

Brand new here so I apologize now for any inconvienence.

I have searched the backlog a bit for something on my particular problem and there were _some_ answers. However, I wanted to see if my particular problem was any more/less complex.

I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 that I got off of a friend (yup, no system disks...) with Windows XP already installed. The problem is that I have only gotten the DVD-ROM to read cds only once. It was right after I downloaded Service Pack 2. Now I am back to being able to read DVDs, but not music/data disks.

When I double click on the DVD icon I get "this disk is not formatted" error message.

Any thoughts if its just a driver or if I need to do something else differently? I am willing to hack away (since it was free I am willing to beat it up a bit).

One post indicated that the DVD and the CD opticals are different and that this could be the problem. I just dont understand why it worked for that short time after SP2 was installed.

Any help would be appreciated. If I need to buy something else, can you suggest?

Aaron