my computer is not recognizing any cd's i put in my drive, can anyone help?its a windows xp
2006-12-21 17:51:27 · 4 answers · asked by kevinlasher 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
As the first responder noted, you can try using a disk drive cleaner disk. If that fails to work, it's possible that the driver for the drive has been fouled up. To fix that, go to your Device Manager, then Hardware, and find the drive in the listings. Right click on that drive and choose "Uninstall" from the resulting choices. Then exit from there, and then reboot your computer. Windows should recognize the drive as "new hardware" and reinstall the driver for it. Then try the CD's in your drive. If that fails, then chances are you may need to replace the drive, and you might as well do it with a combo DVD/CD drive. Good luck.
2006-12-21 17:58:03 · answer #1 · answered by Jolly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to add to jolly's diagnostics, does windows recognize the CD/DVD drive at all? if not, does it show up during post (if you don't see your bios screen on a cold boot, press the escape key) if it doesn't show up in bios during post, this means either of 3 things - check your cable connections! have you changed the jumper on the back of the drive? Try swapping the ide cables for your hard drive and cd drive while also swapping ide ports for them. If you swap the ide ports and your cd drive is now recognized but your hard drive is not, this means you have a bad ide interface on your motherboard. This all depends on how your drives are connected. Slave drives must be first on the ide ribbon before the master drive (which should be set to Cable select jumper position).
2006-12-21 21:07:32 · answer #2 · answered by john_aka_bean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there is something wrong with your CD drive. Try to get it checked by your vendor.
2006-12-21 17:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by dexter_theboygenius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a lens cleaning CD... try after that.
2006-12-21 17:54:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋