CD-RW drive not working 4

[amberlynn]

I have a CD-RW drive that no longer works.
There are no errors in device manager.
I have tried reinstalling the drivers - no difference.
When I put a CD in, the hourglass pops us with the disk on it. But nothing ever happens.
When I look at the D: drive in My Computer - it is always empty.
When I try to look in the D: drive from the command prompt, I get the message "Device not ready".
Is my drive toast?
Thanks,
Amber

 

[vacunita]

It very well may be. You can try booting Wisndows in safe mode, see if it works there. In which case it would point to a potential software or driver issue.

Alternatively you could try another CD-RW drive, if it works in the same cable and position, then your original CD-RW drive is likely toast.

When I put a CD in, the hourglass pops us with the disk on it. But nothing ever happens.

Is that a RW CD or a regular store bough one? Does it still read the regular store bought ones?






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[danomac]

Do you have a bootable CD around? Try to boot off of a CD. That'll let you know if it's working.

 

[amberlynn]

So it will boot from a CD (but is noisy).
In Safe Mode it's the same as regular mode - no errors, but nothing shows up on in My Computer for the CD drive and "The Device is Not Ready" fromt he CMD prompt.

Weird!!

 

[amberlynn]

So I was wrong.
In safe mode I opened up My Computer - clicked the CD drive - blank.
Then I opened the cmd prompt and got that message.
Then I walked away - came back 30 minutes later, and all the CD stuff is there. I tried cmd again, and it works too.

So I booted back in to normal mode - put a music CD in - and waited about 15 min - sure enough - it eventually worked.

So it's working - just crazy slow??
Are these symptoms of a failing CD Burner?

Thanks!
Amber

 

[BadBigBen]

I'd say that it would not hurt to just go ahead and replace the drive...

These days, DVD Burners are cheap (CD burners even cheaper)...

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
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[kjv1611]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...00005 50001623 1036506653&name=LG ELECTRONICS

Theres a list of LG DVD Burners (my personal favorite, except I've read of some of the latest models containing some sort of ad-ware in them? I'm not sure about it, never seen it, but read about it in some other forums.

The LG drives I've used to date (using up to 4 burners in one computer) have been excelent - fast, read/write anything I throw at them, and dead quiet. Before them, I tried running 4 Lite-On burners. The Lite-On drives worked just fine, however they sounded like a jet engine taking off... so 4 of them sounded like 4 jet engines taking off - not good. I sent them back, and got 4 LGs, haven't looked back since.

Also, I've never had an issue (personally, nor in computers I've worked on) with Sony burners, noise-wise nor performance-wise.

 

[amberlynn]

Thanks all!!
I'll find a new one
Amber