utterly baffled
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:10 pm
Have a DVD ROM and CD/RW in my machine. Simultaneously, both lost the ability to read a disc. Was burning cd's and playing throne of bhaal about midnight last night and today neither drive reads disc.
Weirder still, I can still write discs with the CD/RW (provided I am writing HDD data and not a disc from the DVDROM). Then, when the write is complete, the CD/RW is unable to read what was just written to the disc.
No new hardware has been installed since they last worked and no new software has been installed either.
It isn't a problem of cleaning, I doubt, since the CD/RW is rarely used. Plus the CD/RW just is almost new.
When a disc is popped into either drive, the PC recognizes the disc as the mouse icon becomes a CD, the motors turn on the drive and then it sits there. Opening windows explorer and highlighting the drive just pulls up the interrupt "Please insert a disc into drive.
So, I'm confused and just looking to see if anyone has any other ideas.
Haven't put a different drive in the system but plan to.
Removing and reinstalling the hardware did nothing.
Discs work in other optical drives on other systems in the house.
No voodoo has been perfomed recently in my office.
Weirder still, I can still write discs with the CD/RW (provided I am writing HDD data and not a disc from the DVDROM). Then, when the write is complete, the CD/RW is unable to read what was just written to the disc.
No new hardware has been installed since they last worked and no new software has been installed either.
It isn't a problem of cleaning, I doubt, since the CD/RW is rarely used. Plus the CD/RW just is almost new.
When a disc is popped into either drive, the PC recognizes the disc as the mouse icon becomes a CD, the motors turn on the drive and then it sits there. Opening windows explorer and highlighting the drive just pulls up the interrupt "Please insert a disc into drive.
So, I'm confused and just looking to see if anyone has any other ideas.
Haven't put a different drive in the system but plan to.
Removing and reinstalling the hardware did nothing.
Discs work in other optical drives on other systems in the house.
No voodoo has been perfomed recently in my office.