I woke up today and tried to use my cd rom, but it wouldnt read my cds! It just makes click sounds like its reading...and during that time, my comp is on a lockdown. I can only move my mouse but cannot click programs. I wait a bit and the cd drive just stops and everything goes bak to normal and i can click stuff again, BUT my cd doesnt load! My cd rom doesnt seem to be reading it. It worked fine yesterday and i did nothing out of the ordinary to it. It justs stops workin today. Any help plz? THANX

try booting up with a win-me startup disk,
and choose with cd-rom support,then see if you can access it from dos, it'll be one letter higher then usual, at e: type dir
press enter, and if it reads it, it is a windows issue, if it doesn't then you know it is a bad cd-rom,cable,dirty,etc.
to create a win-me startup disk
click start-settings-control panel-add/remove programs-startup disk tab-create disk.

Ive made the start-up disk. But can u tell me step by step in detail on what to do now? cuz im bad at compz...thanx man

put the disk in a: drive, click start-shutdown-then restart-then click ok
when it reboots-it will start from the startup disk, when asked- choose with cd-rom support- then if it finds your cd-rom
it will be e: if it usually is d:
so at the a: type e: press enter
then with a cd in the cd-rom, at the e:
type dir and press enter, if it reads the cd-rom it could be a windows issue, or upon restart into windows your cd-rom may work,
if not then you have a hardware issue,
which can be as simple as replacing your cd-rom, or cleaning it.

FEEDBACK:
I did the startup disk thing, with my video game CD in the cd rom drive. I followed all the steps. It tried to read cd and it said something like "Not ready to read E:" or something like that. I assume thats a failure to read....

I go back to reg windows. I take my videogame cd out of cd rom drive, scream, and chuck it out the window. I then get a music cd, put it in, and it LOADED!!! I then repeated the startup disk thing with my music CD this time. SAME results.

I dont get it....How come it read in windows? But when i tried to do the start up thing, it failed like my video game cd?

Is the solution now to get a new cdrom drive?

if you haven't yet, try shutting the computer off for about 30 seconds, then turn it back on, I've seen where after a complete shutdown and startup, it started working again, another thing to do is run regedit
start-run-type in regedit and click edit-then find-type in noide and press enter, if it finds noide delete that key, then exit regedit, and reboot.