Another CD Drive problem

[Guest]

Here is yet another post about CD DVD drives not working.
I have a CDR/RW and a DVD
My drives have been working fine. Suddenly they don't. The cables are all connected properly and the drives work just fine on another computer. I've tried all the obvious, removing them and letting windows find them (did the same for the controllers) uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers. I've done complete virus/adware/malware checks.

The Device Manager sees them. No problems detected. They will not read any disks, software, data, music or DVD. My CDR/RW will, however, burn CDs. The only changes made to my computer have been updates to my virus software and Windows updates. I can't read CDs from boot either.

I've seen a ton of posts on this topic and tried anything mentioned in them I had not already tried. Anyone have any new ideas?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

sounds like u have an ide controller problem. if this is beyond your knowledge take it to a repair center. but you need to swap your ide cables, if all your cd rom/dvd are on 1 cable then unplug ide 1 and swap it with ide 2 on the motherboard, then if the computer still boots you know your ide controller is completely working but if it does not boot then chances are 1 side of your controller is not working,reboot hold delete down,enter bios and see if only cdroms are showing up in the drive list. then swap cables back to restore computer back to original state.