Dvd drive won't read discs!

[nightrider]

Hi,

 

Yesterday I found when I put a cd in my dvd/cd drive on my pc I hear the disc spin, but the computer doesnt seem to think there is a disc. If I click on e drive I just get an empty folder!

 

I tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them and this made no difference. In device manager (windows xp) the drive is listed as working normally.

 

Does anyone have any idea what else I can try to diagnose the problem?

 

Thanks,

 

N

[e912]

have you tried other discs?

[LibertyBell]

Hi,

 

Yesterday I found when I put a cd in my dvd/cd drive on my pc I hear the disc spin, but the computer doesnt seem to think there is a disc. If I click on e drive I just get an empty folder!

 

I tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them and this made no difference. In device manager (windows xp) the drive is listed as working normally.

 

Does anyone have any idea what else I can try to diagnose the problem?

 

Thanks,

 

N

 

uninstall driver and reinstall?

 

clean device?

 

check connections?

 

get a new one.

 

 

went through this palaver recently and ended up with a new one.

 

also check google - there are dozens of ideas

[wwp8]

if it goes "krr krrr "

get a new one before you need to get new disks too

[Eric_Collins]

what it could be is the lazer is faulty or dirty. I've had DVD ROM's that couldn't read CDR's that once did. This is a common fault on XBOX 1 consoles and Samsung CD/DVD Roms.

[EliteBES]

probably better to just get new drive. although the lens can be cleaned by actually opening up the dvd drive.

[wwp8]

check device manager/bios if the computer is reading the rom ok

[Dave650]

if it goes "krr krrr "

get a new one before you need to get new disks too

 

My ps2 does that it used to be alright just stamp on it every 15 minutes or less but then it started eating discs....

[Lisa*Marie*]

For what they cost its prob just easier to go out and get a new one , thats if your happy with opening your pc up and fitting it .

[Livid]

Is it both CD's and DVD's or just one or the other, sometimes they can fail at reading one type, alternately put a windows xp/vista disc in the drive and reboot the pc and see if it gives you the option to boot from cd, if it doesn't make sure cdrom is set in the bios before the hard drive as a boot device and if its set to boot from cd first and you get no joy then i would say the drive is more than likely faulty and requires replacing.