Here is one possible solution:
Try turning the computer off and remove the mains lead, also remove the
battery as it’s a laptop. Press and hold the on/off button on the computer
for ten seconds. Plug in the lead and laptop battery and start the computer
as normal. You may have to reset the system date/time.
"BT" wrote:
Quote:
> Hi
>
> I have a fairly new install of Vista Ultimate on my laptop (~1 month old).
> A few days ago the CD/DVD drive stopped recognizing any media inserted in the
> drive. No autoplay dialogs appear and if I try to open the disc in my
> computer the disc is ejected and I'm told to insert new media. I can boot off
> of the drive fine using my Vista install disk leading me to believe its a
> software problem, but I'd prefer not to reinstall the OS since I just did
> that 1 month prior due to another issue. Strangely I also have
> encountered a problem with my USB flash drives - Vista claims the drive is
> unformated and attempts to reformat always end in a failure. The flash drive
> works
> on other computers so I know this isn't a hardware issue. What seems to
> unite the
> two problem is that when I open Computer Management->Disk Management the
> CD/DVD disc & flash drive are recognized but Vista claims that they have the
> RAW filesystem (which they do not). Any suggestions? My motherboard was
> replaced recently and I performed the reinstall afterward but perhaps this is
> hardware? I'm at a loss on how to correct this, so any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> BT
> When