cd rw drive doesn't acknowledge cd

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My cd rw drive doesn't acknowledge any cds I put into it. It was as if I put nothing in it. The device manager says the device is working properly. I uninstalled and reinstalled it but it doesn't make a difference. Is there anything I can do?
 
If the drive is getting old and you've used it quite a lot, and if the CD
itself (or CDs) are clean, then replace the drive.

You could try a CD cleaning kit in case the lens on the drive have become
dirty, but generally they cost almost as much as a new drive these days. I
got a 52x24x52 drive last year for the grand sum of $27.

Then I dumped it (put it in hubby's PC) when I got a DVD +/- burner (Pioneer
A06) for the grand sum of $106.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
Seems there is a problem with recognition/autostart. See
article 817357. The patch is not downloadable though.
Are there other solutions? I think there is a service
conflict. Anyone have the patch? ChrisD
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My cd rw drive doesn't acknowledge any cds I put into
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it. It was as if I put nothing in it. The device manager
says the device is working properly. I uninstalled and
reinstalled it but it doesn't make a difference. Is there
anything I can do?
 
Had a long chat with MS support this afternoon:o))

It seems the answer to the problem is not the patch!

Well at least my problem was'nt. It was one of the
drivers in the startup group, the one for a Belkin Flash
Drive. As soon as we disabled the driver the CD drive
started working properly:-))))

If needed, go to Start, Run, msconfig and then the tab
for startup. From there disable all the drivers and do a
reboot, check the drive, enable a driver, reboot etc
routine to find the one thats causing the problem.

Phil Martin.
 
Thanks for the feedback. I have suspected a conflict and
have identified that if I disable the ethernet connection
then all is fine. As my system is largely 'vanilla' I
tend to think this might respond well with a patch, but
will try sytematically stopping services and see what
happens.
 
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