CD/DVD Drive not responding

[Mrs C]

My laptop did an update on Friday but now my CD/DVD drive is not responding.
The system says that the drive is working correctly but it's not. The light
used to flash when the drive was working but now it's not doing anything. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

My laptop did an update on Friday but now my CD/DVD drive

is not responding.

Have you visited the manufacturer website, to download a
new driver? Other then that I can't be of much help as my
last owned copy of MS was the 98'er version. Can you also
check if the CD works? Like putting in a recovery-CD and let
the sucker boot from CD? Then you will know for certain that
the drive is not failing. You know those things can just
bite the dust...

The system says that the drive is working correctly but
it's not. The light used to flash when the drive was
working but now it's not doing anything. Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Dragomir Kollaric, a happy Gnu/Linux (currently Ubuntu) user since 1998

 

[Rich Barry]

When you open MyComputer do you see the cd drive icon? If not, try
Doug Knox's fix.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/xp_fixes.html Right Column 10 down.
Restore Dvd/Cd drives to Explorer.