CD Not recognized by older pc

[Bart Silverstrim]

Paul Ayers wrote:
> I have a 333 HP pc that is not recognizing the CD is there anything I 
> may do to remedy this?

If it's an older CD drive and the disc is a CD-R/RW, I've had plenty of 
instances where the drive just won't see the burnable disc.  Only way I 
could fix it was to replace the drive or use an external drive that 
could be seen at boot (or temporarily swap the drive out with a newer 
one from another system.)