MAt****a dvd-ram uj-8505 ata not working

HI I am having massive problems with my dvd drive, a while ago it
started refusing to burn audio cd's for me, tbh I didnt do anything
about it at the time. More recently it is now refusing to play any
dvd's or normal audio cds, progams or games.

The auto run does not even start. If I go into my computer I can see
the dvd drive but if I click on it it trys to tell me that the drive is
empty even if I have just put a disk in.

I have ran anti virus, adware, driver checks, uninstalled the device
and I am now totally out of ideas. Just thought I would ask for help
from some of you a lot more tech minded than myself before I admit
defeat and take it into pc world for fixing lol.

Please can anyone helping keep instructions to laymans terms as I am
not very tech savy.

Thanks
Vicky


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