Ok heres my problem. For some strange reason my laptop doesnt recongnize my CD/DVD drive. Its built in to my laptop, but when I go to My Computer, its not showing the CD/DVD Drive. I even tried going into Device Manager and scanning for new hardware but it didnt pick up the CD/DVD drive. Is this a hardware failure? I cant replace it because its built in to the laptop, my only choice would be to buy an external CD/DVD drive. How do I fix this problemPlease help!
2006-08-15 14:47:28 · 5 answers · asked by tf8405 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Mine did that too. Go to Start, Control Panel, Add Hardware, and then follow the steps. It will look for hardware not currently installed. For some reason, your CD/DVD drive became uninstalled. If you use a jump drive very often and disconnect it properly, you might have hit the wrong choice and had it safely remove the CD/DVD drive instead.
Good luck.
2006-08-15 14:54:03 · answer #1 · answered by THP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many combo drives use different lasers for reading and writing, both for CD's and DVD's. It sounds to me as though one of the lasers in your drive isn't performing as it should. You might try using the Device Manager to uninstall the drive, then reboot, and Windows should see the drive as new hardware and re-install the drivers for it. If this doesn't work, chances are the drive will need to be replaced. They do sell drive cleaning disks, and you might want to try that, but they generally don't work that well. Good luck
2006-08-17 01:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 16x DVD-ROM only reads CD's & DVD's. That's it! There might be a chance u can only read DVD +R or -R. Or it might not read DVD RW's.
With the 16x DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer, u can burn CD's, DVD's (+, - & RW formats) and u can burn dual layer DVD's.
You also can make On-the-Fly copies of both CD's & DVD's using both drives.
On-the-Fly means making a copy of a disc w/o storing the file in your Hard Drive first.
*If it's a DVD Movie u wanna copy, that takes a little more work & some research to do.
2006-08-16 00:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go two control panel right click perfomance and matance cliclk on system click hardware tab if yiu hac a yelloe ? the driver is not on go down two the yellow ? and clike it should tell you how two install the driver I hope thath help
2006-08-15 16:09:40 · answer #4 · answered by ED W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be a loose connection between the drive and the mother board or its not set as a master (you can set drives as master, slave, etc..) or its corrupted drive
2006-08-15 14:55:21 · answer #5 · answered by Jase Mighty Pirate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋