Loaded XP and DVD stopped working

[RMcKinney]

Some time ago, I loaded XP and my DVD drive stopped working and I never got
around to fixing it. Well, I need it now. Does anyone have any ideas why a
DVD would stop working when XP was loaded?

Thanks,

Roger

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Some time ago, I loaded XP and my DVD drive stopped working and I
never got around to fixing it. Well, I need it now. Does anyone
have any ideas why a DVD would stop working when XP was loaded?

What do you mean by 'stopped working'?
That could be so many things.

 

[John Inzer]

Some time ago, I loaded XP and my DVD drive stopped working and I
never got around to fixing it. Well, I need it now. Does anyone
have any ideas why a DVD would stop working when XP was loaded?

Thanks,

Roger

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Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas:

(308012) Resources for troubleshooting DVD
problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308012/en-us

(314060) You can no longer access the CD
drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error
message after you remove a CD recording
program or a DVD recording program in
Windows XP: "error code 31"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us

(817357) The AutoPlay Function Does Not
Work and the Current Media Does Not Appear
in My Computer When You Insert a CD or DVD
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817357

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John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[sgopus]

What do you mean loaded, if you mean installed, what did you have previously?
VISTA ?
What kind of interface does the DVD require SATA or PATA?
What do you mean stopped working? doesn't play a DVD nor CD or just won't
read anything?

if just DVD then you need to know XP doesn't read DVD's natively, you need a
third party piece of software to read/play DVD's CD's are ok.

Please post a smart message with details enough to get a decent answer.

 

[philo]

Some time ago, I loaded XP and my DVD drive stopped working and I never
got around to fixing it. Well, I need it now. Does anyone have any ideas
why a DVD would stop working when XP was loaded?

Thanks,

Roger

Try booting from the DVD...
if you can't boot from it and it does not work from within the OS...
then it simply has failed...or there is a cable problem

OTOH, if you can boot from it
but it does not work from within the OS...there may be a hardware
conflict...
check in device manager