D Drive

[thompson7018]

Hi, can you tell me why my D: Drive will not acknowledge a regular disk to
be played or install? Thank you Phyllis

 

[Jim]

Hi, can you tell me why my D: Drive will not acknowledge a regular disk to
be played or install? Thank you Phyllis

No because you did not say what kind of drive it is.

If it is a CD or DVD, the most likely cause is failed hardware. In other
words, replace it with a new drive.
They don't seem to be especially reliable these days.

Jim

 

[John R Weiss]

Hi, can you tell me why my D: Drive will not acknowledge a regular disk to
be played or install? Thank you Phyllis

Depends on what you mean by "acknowledge"...

If you mean AUTOMATICALLY start playing or running the Setup file, your
Autorun setting may be disabled (possibly by a software firewall).

If you mean you cannot see the CD (folder/file list) in Explorer at all, you
may have a bad connection or a failed drive.

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Optical drives do not have too long a life unfortunately.. you may need to
change it out.. try a regular stereo CD player cleaner disc before you
change it out though.. could be it's just a mite dirty..

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi, can you tell me why my D: Drive

Please help us to help you. What kind of drive is your D: drive? CD? CDR?
CDRW? DVD? DVDRW? Other?

will not acknowledge

What do you mean by "acknowledge"?

a regular
disk

What do you mean by "a regular disk"?