Well, it has been about a month now since my CD/DVD drive has stopped working I never really cared about it until now when I am trying to actually use it for something I basically get an error it differs depending on what I am trying to do, before it said something like "Path not found" Now it is saying this.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Swifty.
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is the drive listed in device manager?
you might try this fix from microsoft:
Your CD or DVD drive can't read or write media
You might also go into devise manager and right click on the Optical Drive and select uninstall; if the drive is an IDE drive (not sata) you might also right click on the IDE controllers and uninstall them also then restart and let windows find the hardware and reinstall it all for you and try it again.
To eliminate a hardware failure can you boot from the drive? e.g. Boot the Windows 7 DVD.
If you can then it's more than likely a software/driver issue
To be honest the thing hardly opens when I want it to, it seems like it makes a noise and doesn't open like it is attempting to, but then after my 5th attempt on pushing the button it opens, and I have not really tried booting from the drive, but I guess I could give it an attempt,
yep, now it does sound like the drive is failing or has failed. They are really inexpensive now days so maybe pick one up and give it a try or borrow a drive from a friend and see if that works for you.
They may be inexpensive but right now I can't really do anything about it, I am not sure exactly when it started happening, or what caused it to but I am pretty >_>
Here is an update, sorry for the double post, I have opened up my computer and everything is plugged into the motherboard so I guess the cause of death is what you guys had said, I think I am going to build myself a new computer my case is pretty beat up,
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