help

help

by 4343coolray Feb 20, 2006 6:36PM PST

my cdrom wont play dvdr cdr or normal dvd the disc icon appears but nothing happens i go to my computer and right click d drive click play and a message appears no disc in drive please help me

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If it's a CD-ROM

by joesmithers06 Feb 20, 2006 8:15PM PST

Then that explains why it won't deal with DVD media. Aside from physical similarities, CDs and DVDs are very different beasts. DVD-ROMs can generally read CDs, but not vise versa.

I do have to admit it's been a long time since I've come across a CD-ROM that won't read a CD-R disc however. Are you sure it's not CD-RW? Up until into the Pentium II days, there were still plenty of new systems shipping with CD-ROMs that couldn't read CD-RWs. If it is a CD-R and not -RW, I'd look to how the disc was created. Since you offer no clues as to any of that, I can't even speculate.

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cd-rom

by 4343coolray Feb 20, 2006 8:52PM PST

the cd-rom is an lg gcr-8523b discs were burnt using liteon dvd/rw using nero7 on windows xp sp2 and i was trying to rip

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Well...

by John.Wilkinson Feb 21, 2006 1:07AM PST

The lg gcr-8523b is a standard CD-ROM drive, and a CD-ROM drive cannot read DVDs, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, etc. The drive you have can only read CD, CD-R, and CD-RW, but cannot burn/write data to any disc. That explains why DVDs are not being recognized.

As to the CD-Rs, they may not have been burned properly (have you tested tham on another computer?) or the drive may be failing. (It is quite old, and the warrenty expired long ago.) Best advice I could give is to see if store-bought CDs are readable and check Device Manager is setting off any yellow flags concerning missing/corrupt/inappropriate drivers.

Hope this helps,
John

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thanks

by 4343coolray Feb 21, 2006 2:01AM PST

thanks both cd-rom came with package 1 year ago but will try device manager any way once again ta very much

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