My E:/ drive doesn't work, when I put in a CD it makes noises sort of like its reading something but nothing comes up. Even when I search the drive manually, can anyone help?:confused:

PC make/model
Operating system? (especially tell me if its XP SP3)

Uhh yeah sorry should have put that stuff down before hand but was busy with more than one thing, I'm not so great with computers and I got this stuff from sytems so if its wrong I haven't a clue. XP service pack 3 AMD sempron processor. Hope this helps I'm crap when it comes to certain things though

Can I assume it used to work? Anyway... XP SP3 is the culprit.

Read my post here: https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/cd-dvd-drives/cd-drive-not-reading-cds-not-hardware-trouble-258000.html

It used to work but I've had SP3 since 2002, it was working till about a month ago then it just sort of stopped. My D:/ has never worked so maybe its causing that to break but I can't see how it would take 6 years for it to cause E:/ to break. If you know of anything else post me back. Thanks

SP3 was just released this year... you can't have had it since 02. Maybe SP2. XP may have done the auto update on its own. Try those instructions.

Oh crap yeah that makes sense man, I set up this thing to get windows XP updates when they were released. Well this makes much more sense, know how to uninstall it without wiping anything else?

Sorry nvm you already posted me something to help, cheers

Thanks for all your help man, and you got round to my messages fast, good advice!

Np problem! Glad to help