CD Drive E is not recognising some CDs

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Hi. I'm new to this so I'm not really sure how it works but I'm going to try and make myself as clear as possible. I have a HP laptop, which I bought a few months ago and when I first tried a CD that was burnt, a message came up that wrote: "Please insert a disc in drive E" and there was a disk in drive E. I brushed it off however because the next CD, which was an original, worked. Yesterday, I tried putting in The Sims 2 but again that message popped up and this CD was an original also. I've tried everything to try and solve this problem but nothing seems to work. Please somebody help me because my holidays are coming up and I cannot have a Sims free holiday. If anyone has any sort of advice that can help me, I would so dearly appreciate it. Thanks in advance :)
 

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Hmm, seems we have an uncontrollable abundance of people with really bad CD drives recently... Funnily enough, all with HP pavilion laptops, this could be for 2 reasons, either HP pavilion laptops have really bad CD drives or the same person is posting the same thing over and over again, but signing upto several accounts to get as many answers as they can.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Q6600 @ 2.8GHz
    Motherboard
    Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
    Memory
    8Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC888 7.1 Audio, Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA,
    Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA,
    WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA.
    PSU
    Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
    Case
    Antec 900 Gaming Case
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium, Dominator RAM cooler
    Keyboard
    Logitech generic keyboard
    Mouse
    Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
    Internet Speed
    16Mb Sky bb
    Other Info
    Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, Wireless Xbox 360 Pad, Wireless Xbox 360 Les Paul Guitar
... and their only system specs are Vista Home Premium 32bit???

It would be nice if people would post their hardware details so one could research their problem since they apparently don't know how to. :)
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom - Built Myself
    CPU
    E8400 Core 2 Duo @ 9 X 400
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5E3 Deluxe WiFi X38
    Memory
    4GB OCZ Platinum OCZ3P13332GK
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gigabyte Radeon HD RX3850 775MHZ 512MB 1.4GHZ GDDR3
    Sound Card
    On Board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2208WFP
    Screen Resolution
    1680 X 1050
    Hard Drives
    1 X 640GB 7200 Western Digital
    2 X 500GB 7200 Seagate Barracuda
    All with cooling fans
    PSU
    ENERMAX 1000W Galaxy DXX
    Case
    CoolerMaster CM690
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700 NT / 4 X 120mm / 1 X 80mm Case Fans
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Comfort 4000
    Mouse
    Microsoft Comfort Optical 3000
    Internet Speed
    10mbps down / 1mbps up - Shaw Xtreme
    Other Info
    Lg GGC-H20L BLU-RAY HD-DVD Reader BD-ROM DVD+-RW 16X8X6 DL 4X

    Scythe Multi-Format Card Reader / Floppy Drive
amen to that
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Q6600 @ 2.8GHz
    Motherboard
    Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
    Memory
    8Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC888 7.1 Audio, Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA,
    Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA,
    WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA.
    PSU
    Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
    Case
    Antec 900 Gaming Case
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium, Dominator RAM cooler
    Keyboard
    Logitech generic keyboard
    Mouse
    Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
    Internet Speed
    16Mb Sky bb
    Other Info
    Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, Wireless Xbox 360 Pad, Wireless Xbox 360 Les Paul Guitar
Sounds similar to my issues. I have an HP Pavillion a1510y with Vista Home Basic 32-bit. Internal CD/DVD player stopped working many moons ago, so I finally broke down and bought a new one, hoping the issue was the player. The new one does the same thing. Place a CD/DVD in it and it begins to spin and spin, etc. Nothing. Finally got it to recognize a CD with songs, but will not play the songs. I am sure it's an easy fix, just don't know it.
 

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JHD1956 said:
Sounds similar to my issues. I have an HP Pavillion a1510y with Vista Home Basic 32-bit. Internal CD/DVD player stopped working many moons ago, so I finally broke down and bought a new one, hoping the issue was the player. The new one does the same thing. Place a CD/DVD in it and it begins to spin and spin, etc. Nothing. Finally got it to recognize a CD with songs, but will not play the songs. I am sure it's an easy fix, just don't know it.
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sounds like a bad issue with hp's OEM drives to me. just take it back and test a new one in the shop.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Q6600 @ 2.8GHz
    Motherboard
    Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
    Memory
    8Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC888 7.1 Audio, Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA,
    Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA,
    WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA.
    PSU
    Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
    Case
    Antec 900 Gaming Case
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium, Dominator RAM cooler
    Keyboard
    Logitech generic keyboard
    Mouse
    Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
    Internet Speed
    16Mb Sky bb
    Other Info
    Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, Wireless Xbox 360 Pad, Wireless Xbox 360 Les Paul Guitar
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