A first step in troubleshooting this would be to swap with a known good drive. They do go bad.
My CD Drive will not reconize any cd put into it. I have a digital drive (which I regulary mount .bin and .cue files) and I have my regular 48x combo drive. So now when I put in a regular CD (iv tried at least 6) my cd drive does nothing, it doesnt do any reaction at all. a few times when I had my computer loaded it refreshed itself when I put in a CD, but it acted as if I put in a blank one. Every time if there is a CD or not it acts as if there is a blank CD in there. does anyone know what to do or how to help me? thanks

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