Comments on: Laptop stopped reading CDs and DVDs

By: Sally Burnell

Sally Burnell — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:35:00 +0000

I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. Recently I began having problems watching DVDs on it. The audio is jerky and now the video is, too. I’ve tried downloading different media players like an updated version of Windows Media Players, VLC player, PowerDVD (which insists that there’s no disc in the drive at all) and none of them are working. I’ve tried everything imaginable to fix this problem like downloading audio and video drivers from Dell, scanning my computer for malware, spyware, viruses, adware and a host of other stuff, searching for downloadable audio codecs….you name it, I’ve tried it, to no avail. So….I am stumped. HELP! Is there a fix for this problem, and if so, what? Thanks.

By: Sam Jr

Sam Jr — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:03:16 +0000

I have an Acer 5935G notebook and is 5 months old, when i put a disc into the drive ( bluray or blank alike) it makes the whirling noise of it normally speeding up then suddenly makes an alarming grinding noise as if its being stopped suddenly! After about 10 seconds its resumes playing/burning for about 30 seconds then does it again, it reminds me of someone putting their finger on a vinyl record as its turning on a turntable to stop it! Help please

By: Alexandria

Alexandria — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:55:25 +0000

Randomly my cd/dvd drive has stopped reading cd’s, games and dvds. I tried mr fix it, but all it said was that my Drive was not detected or it was missing. How do I get it back? Mine also does the whirring noise, but it doesn’t pop out. It just never stops unless i restart the laptop.

Please Help.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:21:10 +0000

Hi,

The CD/DVD ROM, make Phillips, fitted with laptop ACER Travelmate 2420 has stopped reading the CD/DVD, and instead makes screeching noise when the drive is closed after loading the CD / DVD. There has been no physical damege to the laptop.

Please help.

By: faiz

faiz — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:33:35 +0000

i have lenovo ideapad Y510 on which i am using windows 7. since last couple of weeks whenever i insert anykind of dvd it does not show up in my computer in the cd drive but when i use a normal disc (700 MB) it works really fine.
anyone can who know in this regard please help me out
thank you

By: Izzy

Izzy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:07:25 +0000

I have a Toshiba Satellite U205-S5304. It has 2 Major Symptoms. It won’t read CD/DVDs, nor can we boot to an external USB DVD drive.

We tried low level formatting the drive from what was left with Windows XP, but the internal DVD drive or external USB drive still is not recognized.

Any solutions to help repair this would be appreciated. Thank you.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:53:50 +0000

Have a HP DV9600 with Vista SP2… Over the last week the drive has stopped functioning.

When I put a CD into the drive, it spins up. However in Explorer the drive is missing (it’s E:) and it’s also not showing in the device manager. It was just working last week and I haven’t installed anything new, etc. in quite some time. The only thing that would have updated on the PC would have been a Windows Update or Anti-Virus update.

Any suggestions?

By: Al

Al — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:17:23 +0000

OK I have a major issues I just downloaded itunes to my laptop and now my cd-rom is gone. I put in a cd and nothing my device manager reads it as an error on the drive so I unistalled itunes and its compents and my cdrom is not there. I just burned 3 cds before I downloaded itunes. is it a possible issue with my filters becuse i do have another cd program??? please help asap

By: ASERET

ASERET — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:44:16 +0000

I have a HP Pavillion dv6700 notebook with windows vista.

I have a problem to do with the DVD player on my laptop.

Whenever I am using my laptop, when not actually using the cd /dvd player, and not touching the button to open the drawer, I’ll hear whirring and then the DVD drawer will suddenly pop open. This will happen several times in succession. Each time I will close the drawer and then shortly afterwards, I hear the whirring sound and the drawer opens again.

Can you tell me what might be causing this, and how to prevent it?

By: Laptop motherboards

Laptop motherboards — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:05:24 +0000

Yes it happens to my laptop as well many times. But ultimately i got it repaired from one of the best laptop repair service providers in Santa Ana, CA – Service.Ztronics.com