dvd rw cd drive

[arkid5]

can some one please help me my dvd cd drive is not reading any disc music games i tried to fix registry errors and when i click on my computer to doulble click the game in drive it tells me no cd and it opens up i used to click on my computer and look at drive E and the game will be there now its just says dvd i have vista 64 bit can someone please help

 

[Jonathan_King]

Wow- my mind hurts after trying to read that. A little punctuation goes a long way. Let me try to rewrite that:

Can someone please help me? My DVD/CD drive is not reading any disk, music or games. I tried to fix registry errors and when I click on my computer to double-click the game in the drive, it tells me "No CD" and opens up. I uses to click on My Computer and look at drive E, and the game would be there. Now it just says DVD. I have Vista 64 bit. Can someone please help?

How old is the drive? It sounds more like a hardware problem than a driver problem, but you never know. Can you test the drive in another system?

 

[arkid5]

the drive is not even a year old. i rarely use it.i dont have another system.have any ideas?

 

[Jonathan_King]

The fact that the drive is new has little bearing on the situation. There are drives that come Dead On Arrival, and there are drives that last a week and then fail. Try rebooting your computer and hitting F12 during the POST to bring up the list of bootable drives. See if your optical drive is listed.

 

[arkid5]

i did what you said. and it was listed there. im new to this please bear wit me.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Try uninstalling all of the drivers in Device Management and rebooting. Then try inserting a disk.

 

[arkid5]

ive done that still dont work.any other ideas? thanks for helping me.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Tell me exactly what happened. It worked fine for a while, and suddenly it stopped reading disks?

 

[Marthea]

My benq wont read my disc,i think i mess up my bios settings,plz help me.

 

[Jonathan_King]

What happened?

 

[Marthea]

My benq wont read any of the valid disc,it wont even read my floppy disc,i think i messup my bios settings,please help

 

[Jonathan_King]

Please, I asked for details, not an exact repeat of your last post. If I wanted to re-read your post, I would have. First, what is a benq?

 

[Rurik]

I believe a Benq is a brand of computer. I have a similar problem to the TC, I have a thread about it a few threads below this, but my HP Pavillion laptop, only bought April last year, has stopped reading disks through the Pioneer DVDRW drive.

I accessed my BIOS like suggested, though i had to use F9 not F12, and could not see the option "optical drives", let alone my driver listed.

Rather than hijacking this thread, i request you check my thread, and help me there if you can

Thank you in advance

Rurik

 

[Jonathan_King]

I believe a Benq is a brand of computer. I have a similar problem to the TC, I have a thread about it a few threads below this, but my HP Pavillion laptop, only bought April last year, has stopped reading disks through the Pioneer DVDRW drive.

I accessed my BIOS like suggested, though i had to use F9 not F12, and could not see the option "optical drives", let alone my driver listed.

Rather than hijacking this thread, i request you check my thread, and help me there if you can

Thank you in advance

Rurik

Go ahead and hijack. I am not referring to entering the CMOS, just pulling up the popup boot menu.

 

[Rurik]

Oh, how do I do that? There doesn't appear to be an option for that, if it helps, my laptop has two boot up options, windows vista, or another one whose name I cant remember. It was put there when I got my OS fixed after it died on me, it asks me to choose between them each time

 

[Jonathan_King]

You might have to enter the CMOS to enable the F12 menu.

 

[Rurik]

OK I will try that shortly and get back to you, Sorry to the TC for hijacking your thread

 

[Rurik]

You might have to enter the CMOS to enable the F12 menu.

Tried this, no option in CMOS. I increased the delay for F10/F12 in the boot options, which was the closest to what I wanted, but still no option to press F12.

The other boot option i can choose from is RAMDISK device options, which leads to system recovery

anything else I can try?

 

[arkid5]

yes it was working fine for awhile. and i went to play a game and it wont read disc.

 

[Jonathan_King]

yes it was working fine for awhile. and i went to play a game and it wont read disc.

Could you go to Device Manager, right-click on your drive and hit Properties, and post a screenshot?

Edit: Rurik, could you do the same?