Guest The Electrifyer Report post Posted August 7, 2002 This is for a friend of mine. A couple days ago, his CD Drive kind of just stopped working on him. He says that everytime he tries to read a CD on his computer, the computer just says the Drive is not accessable. This happened to me a few months ago to and it turned out to be a loose cable. I told him this but he says that that same drive is also a DVD Drive and it reads DVDs just fine. So basically his problem is that his CD Drive can't read normal CDs, but it can still read DVDs. Since he isn't too good with computers, I wasn't too sure if it was a hardware problem anymore and told him to try other things before actually opening it up. Does anyone know how to fix his problem though? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MarvinisaLunatic Report post Posted August 8, 2002 Chances are its something screwed up with the laser. Might want to try a cleaning disc thingy first and see if that works. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest mister foozel Report post Posted August 8, 2002 Chances are its something screwed up with the laser. Might want to try a cleaning disc thingy first and see if that works. yeah, tell him to try that first and ask him if he recntly deleted any cd-burning programs on his computer because it may be a registry problem Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Electrifyer Report post Posted August 8, 2002 Are you sure its the laser though? If its the laser, wouldn't the drive not be able to read DVDs either? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Razor Roman Report post Posted August 8, 2002 Are you sure its the laser though? If its the laser, wouldn't the drive not be able to read DVDs either? I am not totally sure about this, but I think that DVD drives (and dvd players in general) have 2 sets of lasers, on for reading DVDs and one for CD's, so it is possible the DVD laser is ok and the CD laser is screwed up. Another thing you might want to try is go to the windows device manager (under SYSTEM in the control panel) and delete the CD rom drive from that. When you reboot windows, it will detect the drive and reinstall it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest admin Report post Posted August 9, 2002 Yes, thats correct most of the time, i would also check the IDE/SCSI cable on it just to make sure and also try moving it to another IDE Channel. sometime cables and motherboards act funny to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
