Computer help: CD Drive Not Working
CD Drive Not Working
by zwolf4444 - 3/29/07 10:50 AMI have an HP Pavillion ze2000z with an 8x DVD burner. All of sudden it seems to have stopped working. It no longer recognizes any CDs or DVDs, either blank, burned, or commercial, that are inserted into it. I even tried booting from a CD, and that didn't work either. The last time it was working was when I was burning a DVD. The burn got almost all the way until the end, then stopped and gave me a write error. I tried it again with a different program, and the same thing happened. After that the drive wouldn't recognize any CDs or DVDs place into it at all. After inserting a disc, the drive spins for a bit, and then makes a clicking noise, then stops, and the drive just thinks there's a CD in there with nothing on it.
Sounds dead
by jackson dougless - 3/29/07 11:05 AM In reply to: CD Drive Not Working by zwolf4444Optical drives, burners in particular, tend to have very short life spans. From everything you've said, your drive is dead, or at least the laser gave out. You could replace the laser, but it'd cost almost as much as a new drive, if you could even track the piece down.
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