PC hardware: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help!
- 1/30/09 3:45 PM
I have the same problem
by ilovemusic38 - 1/31/09 7:51 PM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do not think that doing it yourself is really going to help. I have that same problem with my laptop, and I do not know what to do, luckily it is still under warranty and hopefully I can get it fixed. I am going to take it in tomorrow. It is a Toshiba Satellite P200 -Ab1 with a pentuim dual-core processor and 1 GB of ram.
DID YOU EVER CONSIDER USING AN EXTERNAL CD DRIVE ?
by bossewitch - 2/1/09 8:15 AM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
perhaps an external drive (or enclosure for your existing cd) might
help.
akiva in ny
pc won't reconize dvd/ cd, drive
by gordon162 - 2/1/09 8:18 AM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If none of the other atempt's don't work,I suggest you update your cd rom driver's.After awhile the drvers that control your hardware get out dated.You can go to the web site of brand name of your hardware,and they will have driver updates,or if you don't mind spending a couple of bucks you can download a driver application.A good one is www.driverdetective.com.and program will update all driver's for you at no extra cost.
I hope this helped you.
Registry issue?
by regenspan - 2/1/09 11:20 AM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Sorry I'm chiming in late. This happened to my laptop--one day, for no apparent reason, it did not recognize its DVD/CD drive. However, there were other strange behaviors in the computer going on as well. I brought it to the dealer, who simply restored the registry and everything worked again. He said that the registry can become corrupted for no reason anyone can trace. It's easy to use Regedit to back up your entire registry without in any way getting inside the registry to edit (and possibly ruin) it. Since I had that problem I back up mine now and then. Good luck
dvd and cd rom
by thespio - 2/1/09 11:23 AM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
hello.
You may need a new IDE cable.Sometimes that may stop the drives from being detected.Try that first if that fails try reinstalling the drivers.
I hope this helps
thespio
check cables
by avoura - 2/1/09 4:07 PM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Have you tried changing the cables that the drives are attached to? I had a problem once with a drive that did not seem to be working properly, so I tried a different IDE cable and then no more problems.
try booting from a CD
by avoura - 2/1/09 4:17 PM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Try booting from a CD, such as a Linux Live CD. If it can read the drive, and boot from the CD, and you try it in both drives in turn, then you know it is a software problem in Windows. If you cannot boot from the CD, then it is a hardware problem. But make sure as well that in the BIOS, the boot order is set to have the CD/DVD drive before the Hard Drive, and then boot from a CD.
clean the DVD CD lens
by souriketsou - 2/1/09 8:34 PM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
try cleaning the lens,or may be it time for a new one
Missing CD-Rom
by sampler111 - 2/14/09 11:16 PM In reply to: My PC stopped recognizing both my DVD and CD drives, help! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi in most cases you can use a Microsoft tool called (Microsoft Guided Help Fix CD-Rom missing) so if you do a search for this online this should fix your problem without any hastle.
Thanks.....John
Still No Luck!
by Carolyn Bell - 2/15/09 8:19 AM In reply to: Missing CD-Rom by sampler111When I start up my computer I get the following message:
"'CD Recording software' will cause Windows to become unstable. Windows has prevented these drivers from loading".
When I click on the message up pops the following window;
"CD Recording Software
Roxio, Inc.
Issue Description:
A CD-recording driver is installed that might cause stability problems, including problems shutting down and problems using a CD/DVD drive. This driver will be disabled.
This driver might have been installed by Easy CD Creator, Windows Media Player or RealJukebox. You might not be able to record CDs until you obtain compatible drivers.
Roxio, Inc. provides an update for Easy CD Creator users at the Easy CD Creator Updates Web site.
For Windows Media Player users, see the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/windowsxp/roxio.asp.
For RealJukebox users, see the RealNetworks Web site at http://switchboard.real.com/rj2/?cd=xpfix.
Contact Information:
Roxio Support Web site (English): http://www.roxio.com/support
Roxio Support Web site (Japan): http://www.roxio.co.jp/support
Telephone: (408) 945-8600 (North America only) "
I have tried numerous times to search for Roxio, Easy Cd creator and Real Jukebox files to uninstall, update them all to no avail.
I have also tried the 'This should fix the problem' suggestion by jazacoop and although the Upper and Lower filters which I deleted as suggested have not been recreated when I boot my computer and I don't see the message pop-up on my screen any longer, my D drive still won't recognise a disc (it just whirrs and spins and says 'insert disc into drive D')
Also when I try to search for problems with my hardware it always says 'D drive working normally' although it is not!
PLEASE HELP!
Thanks,
C Bell.
Still no luck
by jloubier2 - 2/15/09 2:12 PM In reply to: Still No Luck! by Carolyn BellHave you tried just reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling your
Microsoft program. If you still have a problem after that, you have a
bad drive.
this will help
by asiatazfree - 2/15/09 10:24 PM In reply to: Still No Luck! by Carolyn BellPliz clean install anew os on ya computer n make sure this time around that , all the software, hardware your installal in ya machine are compatible to the os installed.
pc stopped recognizing dvd/cd drive
by kbazemo - 2/15/09 11:45 PM In reply to: this will help by asiatazfreei did all of the suggestions and nothing seems to work as i stated before the pc recognizes the drive but when i put media in it, it cannot read or burn ANY disk
Tried another drive?
by Kees Bakker - 2/16/09 12:00 AM
In reply to: pc stopped recognizing dvd/cd drive by kbazemo
Sometimes they fail. In fact, they fail rather often.
Kees
Cd Drive won't Born
by jloubier2 - 2/16/09 1:35 PM In reply to: Tried another drive? by Kees Bakker
Are you trying to burn a DVD?? You need extra software to do that.
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