Hey, I have now had this problem for a while and tried to find a solution all over the net... but just nothing, so I thought I'd finally try to ask somewhere.

I got 2 drives on my comp, a DVD R and a DVD RW, the first works as it should, no problem, but suddenly one day I just noticed that I couldn't read any disks on the other. I have tried to uninstall the driver, let it be redetected, this happened before restart even, I tried again with restarting, but still nothing. Also, its set at slave, because I changed it with the other one since there was no point in having an unreadable master drive :S

Drive is a "Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105" and it just basically won't read anything, and since it can't tell that a DVD or CD comes inside, I can't use it to write with either. It doesn't seem to spin around either by the way. Just pops in and then nothing. It responds to eject requests from right click drive and eject, but other than going in and out, it really is not very useful.

I hope anybody could have any new ideas for me :)
Thanks!

Klaes

Normally a CD/DVD drive will "spin up" on it's own when a disk is inserted. I would guess that the drive is broken. Drivers are not normally a problem that would cause this.

Is there any way to test this drive in another machine to confirm?

Hmm, not really, I would have to unmount it and get it to another computer then, and I don't have any other stationairies around :S

Well, I thought it might just have to be faulty by now, it was just weird that it happened like that, suddenly not being able to use it, but anyway... Think I had it for almost 5 years now so I suppose that's all it could take :)

Well, and indeed, it really doesn't do anything when I insert things into it, its like you see the mouse with the little CD attached to it, and then just no noise from the drive and nothing else, so I think I might just take the drive apart and have a look at it, hehe... anyway :)

Thanks for the reply!

Why not, nothing to lose:D

Replacements aren't so much anyway

Exactly :P
So could just be fun to have a look, see if I can put it back together and maybe see if its just the spinning mechanism that's stuck, hehe...

If it was working before and it suddenly stopped working and it is 5 years old, I must believe it ran out of its life. DVD drive is so cheap and much faster these days, you are better of replacing it rather than spending your valuable time trying to fix it.


Good luck.

Yeah, well, but still fun just to have a look now I got to get a new one anyway, hehe... And yes, it really is getting a bit slow... I think its like 4x speed or something like that, but always interesting to see what's inside :)

Edit:
Took it apart, put it back together, nothing... it's the CD or DVDs I put in it that just won't start spinning, I checked the thing that was supposed to spin them though, no problem in turning it around, but still nothing :) Finally I get a good excuse of getting something faster!

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