If you have something bootable on a disc....like windows.
Put the disc in the reader and set the bios to boot from disc.
Boot the machine.
If that fails then look into a lens cleaning kit.
If after using the kit and it still won't boot from the disc then I suspect your looking at a trip to the pc repair shop.
Hi all
My laptop (Asus M51V running Vista) has recently decided it doesn't want to read discs of any kind: CD, DVD, blank, or games.
The drive is a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633A and nothing I have found whilst searching for a solution has worked: uninstalling driver and rebooting, Windows' own disc drive repair program, and diagnosing faults with the disc drive doesn't find anything and tells me"this device is working properly." Is there anything else I can try that could work so that I may be able to avoid having to take it to a shop and pay what will probably be a large and perhaps unnecessary bill?

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