My acer aspire 5050 laptop stopped reconizing CD's in it's DVD/RW drive yesterday. DVD's work fine.
So far I've tryed un/re-instaling the DVD/RW driver, I tryed to update the driver but Vista seems to think it's upto date.
Laptop: Acer Aspire 5050 (Aspire 5051AWXMi)
OS: Windows Vista Home Primium
2007-05-16 11:30:37 · 4 answers · asked by bad_ikkle_fraggle 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Dual drives have 2 lasers, one of them is dirty or bust. Clean it or new drive
2007-05-16 23:04:14 · answer #1 · answered by The original Peter G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter G got it right - DVD drives have two lasers, because CD and DVD formats are different. The CD laser in your DVD drive is, as Peter G suggested, either dirty or knackered.
If using a CD lens cleaner doesn't work, it's probably knackered!
My DVD writer also gave up on CD's - luckily I had a spare CD writer which will do until I replace the DVD writer!
2007-05-17 01:22:50 · answer #2 · answered by twentieth_century_refugee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My problem is opposite. My DVD drive can read CDs but can't do with DVDs. My friend said it haven't read a DVD in a long time so it's kind of forget it ability. Maybe you too. I can't fix it. Poor you.
2007-05-16 22:28:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
many computer do this
2007-05-16 11:55:49 · answer #4 · answered by Jarkbra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋