In news:C5AE0B97-E328-48C5-AD69-E707FF1C64B4@microsoft.com,
Catana <Catana@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> As soon as I put a blank CD-RW into my CDRW/DVD combo in my 1 year
> old Dell compact computer, it makes this noise every second. "bumf
> churp, bumf churp, bumf churp". I think this is the first time I
> tried to burn a CD on this computer. I can look at data CD,s and play
> music. I just can't burn a CD. I've tried both the Sonic burning
> software that came with my computer and drag and drop thru DLA. I
> tried to format a disk, but 30 minutes into it, it sais format failed.
>
> Any suggestions
> Thanks

Chances are you need to return the drive for a new one. Other than that you
can try removing upperfilters and lowerfilters and the likes? That's about
all I can think of. The directions are here on this site:

Missing CD/DVD Drives:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general...VD_drives.html

Err... Pardon the name of the page and the link but that's USUALLY when
people are wanting to delete the filters. Same process just a different name
for you.

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which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
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