Summary: I'm sitting here on my friend's comp and her basic cd drive will read cd's. Then she has a sony DRU-510A dvd-rw drive. It will read cd-r's, but it w...
Summary: My DVD drive has never liked reading DVD's, but i put up with it because i never really needed to run DVD's, however i bought a game today and got it ...
Summary: The DVDRW has quit reading CD's & DVD's and no error message.....just blank. It doesn't even say insert disc when clicking on explore CD....no errors ...
Summary: I have an 11 month old Dell Inspiron. Since it was 1 month old I have had problems with CD/DVD drive not reading CDs/DVDs that I keep important data a...
Summary: Isn't Vista on a DVD? Maybe your CD portion hasn't been working. Combination drives have TWO lasers in them. Your CD laser may be dirty or burned o...
Summary: Hi, I posted this question a few days ago but it never appeared for some reason. I use a samsung 352b cd-dvd/cdr combo drive. It usually works fine b...
Summary: First things first my problem started when there was a virtual bouncer virus on my machine, it caused 2 main problems which were: 1) My display proper...
Summary: Thanks, but if there was a problem on the sound-card..... I wouldnt be able to hear any sound would I? The problem isnt that the CD wont play, but tha...
Summary: The laser may not have failed. That is only one cause of the drive not reading DVDs. The proper codecs may have been corrupted or the ASPI layer soft...
Summary: hi, I have a similar question. I have several system each with a DVD ROM drive installed they all play DVD movies and CD ROM /R/Rw disk fine. Recently...
Summary: When I put a CD-RW in to record Data, it says there is no disk in unit, I can play a DVD Movie in it Recorded or Orig Movie, but I put a previous CD-R...
Summary: The drive is recognized in the computer, however, any cd's will not read or spin up? and my CDRW drive is not even recognized. If I need to replace th...
Summary: How to fix the DVD rom that can only read CD-R? I did not install any thing special lately. I am not sure of the brand of the burner but my pc is a Ac...
Summary: Well i used Nero to write the files, and the drive i think is December 97 - which come to think of it is kind of old now! the CD does read in one of m...
Summary: are you burning them "multisession"?If so, some drives wont read them. ASROCK K7S8X M/B AMD ATHLON 2000+XP 384MB DDR 266MHZ GEFORCE4 AGP8X 64MB MAXTOR...
Summary: My daughters computer has as problem with the CD Drive, we replaced the drive thinking it was the drive itself but the new one is doing the exact same...
Summary: My friend has a DVD-rom drive that's not working. At first the drive would read cd's but not eject. I told her to use the good old paper-clip method....
Summary: I'm having difficulty figuring out why both of my optical drives stopped reading media. I have tried CDs and DVDs but none seem to work. It sounds lik...
Summary: Don't update the firmware, at least until you get it running. You're right. You don't need drivers for optical drives - to read cd's or dvd's. But in ...
Summary: What I meant by "Conventional wisdom was to update the bios and restore factory settings" is that that is what people tell you if you say you have a b...
Summary: I had this drive for about a week, it worked fine until my computer died so i had to RMA my mobo and my ram and my hardrive. Now that everything is al...
Summary: Is it a DVD-rom drive (only reads CDs and DVDs, or reads and burns CDs, only reads DVDs) or a CD/DVD combo burner drive (reads and burns both CDs and ...
Summary: I got a coworkers Sony laptop to add some updates. I put SP1 and it destroyed the whole thing. I loaded windows vista business edition on. I added all...
Summary: My computer doesn't recognize any disks. There's two CD drives installed, onecame with the computer and the other I put in to make CD's and DVD's, but...
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