All of a sudden my cd/cdrw drive is not recognizing any cds; I have tried
both commercial music cds and also data cds that I have saved info on.
I tried system restore - it didn't help. I also checked the device driver
properties and it says the drive is in there. Any suggestions? I am running
Win Xp and got the system at Christmas.
Thank you.

Same thing happened to me yesterday, replaced with another .
can be difficult sometimes when little used, comes as a bit of a shock.
all of my files are sent to external drive shared on network.
deejaydee
"confusedmom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F5E23978-08B8-40A0-9F8A-(E-Mail Removed)...
> All of a sudden my cd/cdrw drive is not recognizing any cds; I have tried
> both commercial music cds and also data cds that I have saved info on.
> I tried system restore - it didn't help. I also checked the device driver
> properties and it says the drive is in there. Any suggestions? I am
> running
> Win Xp and got the system at Christmas.
> Thank you.

On Sat, 5 May 2007 18:19:33 +0100, "deejaydee"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Same thing happened to me yesterday, replaced with another .
>can be difficult sometimes when little used, comes as a bit of a shock.
>all of my files are sent to external drive shared on network.
>deejaydee
>"confusedmom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:F5E23978-08B8-40A0-9F8A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> All of a sudden my cd/cdrw drive is not recognizing any cds; I have tried
>> both commercial music cds and also data cds that I have saved info on.
>> I tried system restore - it didn't help. I also checked the device driver
>> properties and it says the drive is in there. Any suggestions? I am
>> running
>> Win Xp and got the system at Christmas.
>> Thank you.
>
Same problem here. I went nuts trying to burn CDs; exchanged them
at Staples TWICE; still no luck. Turns out it's not the fault of the
discs. Drive just will not recognize any disc. Keeps telling me
"insert a disc in Drive D" -- when there IS already one in there!

Also -- and this may have a bearing? -- CD drive drawer opens and
closes on its own! Weird...

IMPORTANT: I *used* to be able to play discs on this system.
What could have caused it to go bad?

Running XP on a Dell that is about 2-3 years old ...

TIA

Aspasia

Thanks Deejaydee and Aspasia- I am going to get a new cd drive put in -
possibly it is the laser or something. It did come as a bit of a shock - you
get used to having something working when you need it and then it is painful
to have it not work! :-)
Thanks, I am glad I found this forum!

"deejaydee" wrote:

> Same thing happened to me yesterday, replaced with another .
> can be difficult sometimes when little used, comes as a bit of a shock.
> all of my files are sent to external drive shared on network.
> deejaydee
> "confusedmom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:F5E23978-08B8-40A0-9F8A-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > All of a sudden my cd/cdrw drive is not recognizing any cds; I have tried
> > both commercial music cds and also data cds that I have saved info on.
> > I tried system restore - it didn't help. I also checked the device driver
> > properties and it says the drive is in there. Any suggestions? I am
> > running
> > Win Xp and got the system at Christmas.
> > Thank you.
>
>
>