Stolen DVD Drive

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Morning,

I work at a Highschool, and some of the little children have stolen one of our DVD Drives from the computer. I am curious as to if their is a log or something on the computer that will list the date and time that the computer no longer had a DVD Rom working.

It is XP Pro. If I can determine the day I can determine who was in the room at that time.

Thanks for your help.

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look in event viewer to see if there was any errors recorded.

in case you don't know how to get to event viewer. Go to Start -> Run then type in eventvwr and click ok.

Check the application and system logs for any obvious errors regarding the dvd drive.

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Well open up the case and dust for fingerprints -- there can't be too many people that has touched the inside (lots that touched the outside though. Plus if it is a school it should be on camera.

wtf kinda schools did you go to that have everything on camera? I've never once seen CCTV in any of my schools, all the way up through college.

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aussiefloyd_fan

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lol, at my old highschool, students would remove the optical drive to get to the modules of 256mb RAM. It's always surprising what kids will do when they're bored...

lol the famous 90's era computers that had half inch of clearance between ram and optics drive.. i remember working on those and i could service the ram with the optical drive still in there

edit: HOLY S*** 256MB of ram is a helluva lot.. omg kids are so leet with 256 ram llol /sarcasam

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wtf kinda schools did you go to that have everything on camera? I've never once seen CCTV in any of my schools, all the way up through college.

You obviously don't watch much news. Perhaps this is an inner-city school.

Most schools I have done work in have CCTV outside the building, in the cafeterias and usually pointing at the doors accessing the computer labs. I haven't seen one inside the classroom though.

There's going to be no record of when or who removed the drive. The best thing you could do is set an example. Remove all the drives and explain to each class as to why the privilege was removed. Perhaps an witness to the theft will come forward.

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ceminess

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wtf kinda schools did you go to that have everything on camera? I've never once seen CCTV in any of my schools, all the way up through college.

Colleges aside. All schools in my area have CCTV. meh :/ I blame Gary.

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yea...the event viewer is your best bet. If they shut the computer down to take it out you will see that in the log...and when the computer booted up. Also mentioned above...you may see some error messages if they left the computer on while snatching the drive. I'm not going to test that on my system to see if errors pop into the error log though. :)

Yea...it is only a $15 dollar drive...but if the OP can find out who did it...then it can be a great lesson to the individual(s) about stealing.

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wtf kinda schools did you go to that have everything on camera? I've never once seen CCTV in any of my schools, all the way up through college.

Really? Both my high school, and both universities I have gone to had cameras outdoors, and the unis had some in certain areas. But as for in classrooms, that I've never come across, so it wouldn't really be much use.

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ceminess

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That's kinda creepy....I'm glad they didn't do that when I was in high school....

Well, when you have reports about gangs in elementary schools, and 9 year olds bringing guns to school, Its good that we have them around here.

All of the gangs are moving over to the Porter County because they don't like what they did to Gary. Schools are getting really bad in my area.

yea...the event viewer is your best bet. If they shut the computer down to take it out you will see that in the log...and when the computer booted up. Also mentioned above...you may see some error messages if they left the computer on while snatching the drive. I'm not going to test that on my system to see if errors pop into the error log though. :)

Yea...it is only a $15 dollar drive...but if the OP can find out who did it...then it can be a great lesson to the individual(s) about stealing.

+1 Exactly

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For $15 it is not worth it.

Say you find out who it was, what can you do to them ?

You cannot expel them.

And these days you are not allowed to beat them.

And even worse they can beat you, and the worst that will happen to them is they may be spoken to harshly.

And if they don't beat you, it will be parts of your car getting damaged.

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soldier1st

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perhaps some cameras around sensitive areas like pc's should be put in, kids who do that have no life and don't deserve to use a pc except staying in there room and pouting, when i went to school this never happend as far as i knew but when i first used a pc or was it a mac i don't recall exactly i had to learn about the trash can and i was like huh what do i do with it and how do i use it.

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When you purchase new computers, you should buy some of the ones which are now designed for schools.

In my last year of school we moved to a new build site, and the computers......you could punch the screen if you got ****ed off :laugh: , also they had no pannels/opticals drives(by choice), locked onto desks etc.

In the older school, most of the optical drives were broken anyway.

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