BF2S Forums A friend's laptop now doesn't reconise CD's....

she got the cd upside down?

no seriously...my brother had a problem on his laptop wear it didnt recognise he had the dvd/cd rom drive itself in..let alone a cd...but managed to get it working again without realy doing anything to it

think i went to add new hardware...but then never really followed the wizard thing (cancelled near the beginning)..but seemed to randomy work after that

what make laptop is it do you know...my brothers is an Acer. i looked around and found things that said about going into some config and deleting values and lines of code...but i tought i best leave that..dont want to fuck up my bros comp

1.  Is computer turned on?
2.  Is it a DVD disc?
3.  Is DVD upside down?
4.  Is it a CD-ROM drive?

S.Lythberg wrote:

I once had a dvd-rom drive commit suicide on me...

does it still recognize dvd's, or is it completely dead?

Committed suicide on you?  Like self-homicide?  Dannng...

ok


it is a DVD/CD drive and it loaded the DVD

Tehremos wrote:

after she put a DVD into it, any ideas?

Email wrote:

[un-named] is having issues with her laptop, she put a dvd in it, and now it won't recognize CD's any ideas??

Basically I got the the above text in an email, I know it's not really an insight into what exactly happened, but thats all I got.
I was wondering if anyone knows of what could have caused this or how it can be redeemed.
It's a pretty new laptop so I believe it's vista, if knowing that helps.

Just something simple you could try:

My laptop doesnt recognise new cd's I put in if I press the cd drive open button...(whatever its called).

But when I eject the cd via "computer" and I put in a different cd is does recognise it

try to eject, maybe it will work??

ok, the drive is dead, it wont read DVD's or CD's now