CD Rom Drive Issue

[Ilu]

Hello forum,

My Toshiba Satallite Pro laptop is unable to read any CD or DVD inserted into its CD Rom drive. Any ideas why and what i could do to resolve this problem.

Many thanks in advance.

[cojak]

Update and reinstall the driver? (via the interweb, obv...)

[Clippy]

When you insert a disc, does Windows recognise it?

If not, sounds like your drive may be buggered.

[Moscow Mule]

If it's one of the removable ones, take it out (fully) and reboot.

Stick it back in after rebooting - this will prompt windows to recognise it again (if it's not buggered).

[pmeswani]

Hello forum,

My Toshiba Satallite Pro laptop is unable to read any CD or DVD inserted into its CD Rom drive. Any ideas why and what i could do to resolve this problem.

Many thanks in advance.

Try booting the system with a Live CD and see if that works... that way you can determine if the problem is OS based or Hardware based. If it is hardware based, time to get a new DVD writer / player for your laptop and disable it in the bios.... or get your laptop repaired.

[dinker]

Can the BIOS see it?

[Sysman]

Have you tried a lens cleaner on it?

[TheFaQQer]

Any ideas why and what i could do to resolve this problem.

Buy a decent laptop.

HTH.

[daviejones]

Buy a Mac...

HTH

[Addanc]

NOTE not necessarily the drive, there is an XP fook-up which prevents access of CD drive. You need to search MS site for repair prog that corrects problem.