How do I access my D Drive for Zorin OS 16 Core?

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In ZorinOS 15.3 Core. CD drive is listed in Disks utility when a CD is inserted.
However, to read content you need to use Files utility where I see the CD as "My Disc". Click that and you should see files listed on the CD, also can Open files on the CD.

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Thank you everybody for your assistance. However, I still can't read the files in my D Drive unlike Windows 10. I was able to read the D Drive yesterday which I went to a website after my disc was in the drive which was temporarily. After I removed the disc and put the disc in again, the drive can't read the files. Merry Christmas Everybody.

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Sorry, can you elaborate? I did not understand this sentence.

I’m leaning toward this being a problem with your drive. Please replace the data cable (IDE, SATA, whatever you use) and try again. If you can try with a different optical drive itself then that would also help.

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Even though it is working in Win10 - I agree with this.
The DVD / CD optical drive should be accessible in Zorin with No problems. This is a very unusual thing for it not to be.

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@nlow004, Ever used one of these?

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Hello everybody. Thank you for your assistance. I was able to access my D drive only in Windows 10. However, when I found Ubuntuask link in Google, it gave me these instructions:

  1. Open Terminal Window since I'm in Zorin OS.

  2. Type ls /dev which displays a list which includes cdrom, cdrw, dvd, or dvdrw I believe. After that, I entered my password.

  3. After that, I typed sudo mount /dev/cdrw/mnt/cdrw then I pressed Enter.

  4. The DVD/CD Drive in Disks which mount link is attached which I only have 1 chance to view the files in the disc. After I ejected the disc, I can't use the same disc or different disc for about 24 hrs. This is only for the CD disc.

What do you think? Please advise.

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These instructions do not make sense to me.

This guide here:

Should serve much better. You can access your files without restriction, whenever and however much you need.

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Dear Arvasian:

Thanks for the tutorial. It really helped. However, I can only do this one on my PC because after I enter the commands per your suggestions, the disc was able to be read only once. After I ejected the disc and put the same disc, I can't mount it again or any disc. However, I have to be patient with Liunx. I guess I have to wait about 24 hrs. Please advise. thanks.

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It seems this one of a great deal of things I do now know enough about or understand very well.
I will try learning it.

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