CD rom drive not reconizing a CD

Posted: 01-21-2004, 03:26 PM

Sky

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When I put a CD into my CD rom drive (Which is also a re-
writer), the light turns on showing that the CD is in
there. But then it stops.

When I go into my computer to open the D drive - it
doesnt show a cd in the drive.

Any suggestions?

CD rom drive not reconizing a CD

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CD rom drive not reconizing a CD

Posted: 01-21-2004, 04:06 PM

Hi,

Some of the things I would try:

Update drivers/firmware with latest from manufacturer

Try in Safe mode

Try removing the CD player in device manager and letting
Windows redetect it.

Regards,

Tim

>-----Original Message-----
>When I put a CD into my CD rom drive (Which is also a re-
>writer), the light turns on showing that the CD is in
>there. But then it stops.
>
>When I go into my computer to open the D drive - it
>doesnt show a cd in the drive.
>
>Any suggestions?
>.
>

Ivanho

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RE: CD rom drive not reconizing a CD

Posted: 01-21-2004, 04:26 PM

Try this CD-ROM in another computer drive and see if it works there. It may be a bad CD-ROM. Or, try different CD-ROMS in your drive. Is this a CD-R or CD-RW media? Sometimes older drives have trouble reading certain brands of media.

-IVE

Dan

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RE: CD rom drive not reconizing a CD

Posted: 01-21-2004, 06:36 PM

I had this problem also, after trying everything I ran a cd laser lense cleaner two times, it worked fine then. You apparently have to clean it frequently to optimise the laser lens.

Good luck

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CD rom drive not reconizing a CD

Posted: 01-23-2004, 05:48 PM

If your drive shows up in explorer, but won't read the
disc, try inserting a good data disc in the drive and
reboot. I'm not sure if an F5 (or ctl-f5) will force it
to retry the disc or not...

>-----Original Message-----
>When I put a CD into my CD rom drive (Which is also a re-
>writer), the light turns on showing that the CD is in
>there. But then it stops.
>
>When I go into my computer to open the D drive - it
>doesnt show a cd in the drive.
>
>Any suggestions?
>.
>

mich

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RE: CD rom drive not reconizing a CD

Posted: 01-30-2004, 07:46 PM

try rebooting with media in drive

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