DVD/CD - RW Drive

[Guest]

The CD/DVD RW drive is not recognising any discs at all ( even pre-recorded
ones ). It worked fine earlier. Any ideas ?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Go to Start > Run and type in: devmgmt.msc
and press the Enter key. After the Device Manager
window opens, scroll down to your DVD/CD-ROM
drives, click the "+" to expand, then right-click on
your CD/DVD Drive and select Uninstall. You will
be prompted to reboot your computer, so reboot
and Windows XP will reinstall the CD or DVD Drive.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| The CD/DVD RW drive is not recognising any discs at all ( even pre-recorded
| ones ). It worked fine earlier. Any ideas ?

 

[Guest]

Thank you - unfortunately it has made no difference. Do you think the drive
may need replacing ?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Have you tried reinstalling your DVD recording software application?

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Thank you - unfortunately it has made no difference. Do you think the drive
| may need replacing ?
|
| "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
|
| > Go to Start > Run and type in: devmgmt.msc
| > and press the Enter key. After the Device Manager
| > window opens, scroll down to your DVD/CD-ROM
| > drives, click the "+" to expand, then right-click on
| > your CD/DVD Drive and select Uninstall. You will
| > be prompted to reboot your computer, so reboot
| > and Windows XP will reinstall the CD or DVD Drive.
| >
| > --
| > Carey Frisch
| > Microsoft MVP
| > Windows - Shell/User
| > Microsoft Community Newsgroups
| > news://msnews.microsoft.com/
| >
| > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­----------------
| >
| > "Ed_H" wrote:
| >
| > | The CD/DVD RW drive is not recognising any discs at all ( even pre-recorded
| > | ones ). It worked fine earlier. Any ideas ?
| >
| >

 

[jonah]

Thank you - unfortunately it has made no difference. Do you think the drive
may need replacing ?

Ed

Can you see the drive in Explorer? If you can and it will read nothing
its probably faulty but swap it with another drive first to prove it.
Any old CD ROM will do just to prove the software side is OK.

I don't know if you are on a Laptop or a PC, if the former check your
DVDs wiring and Power, if on a Laptop sometimes the DVD player works
loose from its IDE connection, it appears to spin up and play but
nothing happens. You have take it out and re-connect it.

Jonah