
I suppose we need to know just what isn't working. DVD versus CD and music versus data. Also the only real way to eliminate windows as the culprit is as I suggested. Using a different drive in that computer and preferably using that drive in a known good computer. An alternative would be to run linux on that computer from a live disk or USB drive. Until then all we can do is speculate however optical drives aren't very expensive.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Windows 7 Pro x64
- Manufacturer/Model
- Mid 2010 iMac
- CPU
- Quad core 3.2 Ghz Intel I3
- Memory
- 8 gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 mb ram
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080 and 1440x900
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB
- Other Info
- N/A
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- Operating System
- Windows 2012 R2 Data center/Linux Mint
- Manufacturer/Model
- Poweredge T140
- CPU
- i3 9100 3.6GHz, 8M cache, 4C/4T
- Memory
- 8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
- Screen Resolution
- 1440 x 900
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB & 360 GB