Eve3Faces Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 My 16X DVD+/-RW CD-RW COMBO Drive will not read disks I have burned or new blank disks. I'm thinking this is something new because I haven't burned a disk in over a year, but don't know what caused it. It has no trouble reading game disks. I took a couple of the burned disks to a friend's house and her drive opened them right up. I have tried several web-found suggestions, such as deleting the UpperFilters and LowerFilters keys in the Registry. I've also tried doing diagnostics, which say there is no disk in the drive when using a burned or blank disk, but will diagnose the drive with a game disk in it just fine. If I put a burned or blank cd in the drive, and start Nero, the program stalls, the light blinks for a while and then turns steady and then won't eject the disk when prompted. I then have to turn off the computer and restart. I am stumped. I know it's over 6 years old, so should I cave and get a new drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 They're not real expensive - I think I would just replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 17, 2013 Administrator Share Posted February 17, 2013 Welcome to Lunarsoft. See if this Microsoft FixIt can correct the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eve3Faces Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Thanks, but FixIt was one of the things I tried first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 19, 2013 Administrator Share Posted February 19, 2013 It's really hard to say what the exact cause is. Since you can burn media I'm assuming that the hardware is detected. Other drives can read it. I doubt it's a connection. It may just be going bad, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Wow, optical media is something I haven't used in years. These days I use a USB flash memory stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Something not yet mentioned -- Combo drives have two lenses so you may be able to read DVDs (but not CDs) or you may be able to read CDs (but not DVDs) depending on which lens has "died". If you can read one or the other but not both, it's pretty definitely a hardware problem, not a software problem, in which case just replace the drive as already suggested by greenknight, above. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Yes, I had a similar problem - my drive wouldn't detect DVDs, worked fine with CDs. Researching fixes, found lots of things might cause the drive not to be detected, but if the drive wasn't detecting one kind of disks there was not much...it might help to clean the lenses, and I found this: Fix calibration of CD/DVD drive - no disc error. A lot of trouble, and might not help. Then I checked he price of replacing it. Found if I shopped the sales I could get a much faster drive than the one I had for under $20.00. I said "To heck with tinkering" and just replaced the drive. It was worth it for the upgrade anyway, even if the old drive had been fine. I still have the old drive, thinking I might open it up and fiddle with it, see if I can get it to work. I have an empty bay I could install it in. May never get around to it...don't have much need of a second optical drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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