CD-ROM Weakening!

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Hello, everyone:

My Toshiba Satellite 2435-s255 Laptop is 5-year old. Basically I have been satisfied with it during the past.

Recently I found a new question: the ability of it's CD-Room to read/display CD is weakening/declining. It can not read/display some CDs again. Some old CD it used to be able to read, but now it can not. And some CDs it can not read now, other PCs can. The conclusion is clear: the reading ability of this CD room is weakening!

How to solve this problem? Could you tell me?
 
5 years is a long time for a cheap optical drive like those shipped in consumer-grade Toshiba laptops. It probably needs to be replaced. However, I haven't been able to determine if it's the modular slim-ODD type or if it's directly integrated. In the former case, you may be able to replace it.

Otherwise, you could look into using an external USB ODD instead. Or perhaps replace the whole laptop for that matter, since you can get a very good quality multi-core laptop with an 8-hour battery life for under $500 these days.
 
Hello all:

Thanks for so many experiences in your responding. I have been convinced that I'd better buy a new one.

New problem is coming, whick should I purchase? My old one is Toshiba: Pentium 2.4G; Hard disk 40G; Ram memory 1G. It has one disadvantage, the sound value is a bit too low, usually I need to use headphone for listening.

Could you remind me your experience and knowledge? --Zhao
 
Hello Anti-Trend:

Happy for getting your respondence.

Befor buying a new Laptop, in addition to what you have reminded me to pay attention, I am also worrying about software compatibility, especially the "GHOST" and "PQMagic".

I have been using the "GHOST8" to backup my OS/C-Partition. Can the new Laptop, with harddisk larger than 150G, be smoothly boot ed into traditional DOS and start the "GHOST8" and then clone the OS? Besides, for such a huge harddisk, does the "PQMagic" still accormmodate to divide the harddisk into two or three partitions?

Compatibility is a headache question, especially right now Window7 is a new OS. I am worrying about them seriously. Could you tell me?
--Zhao
 
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