Samapico Posted June 11, 2005 Report Posted June 11, 2005 i've had this problem for a loooooong time... but never posted about it... i had this sucky CD drive... whenever I put a cd in it, the computer wouldn't recognize any data on it and would just show up as a 0 bytes cd in 'my computer' ; i had to reboot the computer so it could see the CD properly... well, it still had difficulty to.. at some point it couldn't do anything though... anyway... so i changed my cd drive (i needed a new one anyway)... it's a LG 52x32x52x16x CD/CD-burner/DVD player worked like a wonder for some time... but once in a while, i put a CD or DVD in it... and it doesn't show up on 'my computer' 's details display...shows up as a 0 bytes cd-rom... well, to be accurate, the label of the drive changes from CD/DVD Player when empty to CD Player when the cd-rom is put in... weirdthe DVD can still be played with PowerDVD, but gives tons of errors whenever you try to use the controlsaudio cd's can still be played through audio programs...but data cd cannot be accessed... so i have to close my session or reboot the computer... then it works.... If my drive wasn't new, I would have suspected it to be the problem... but I don't think it would be... the problem is similar to what I had with my old cd-drive... difference is that the old drive was getting worse and worse with time Any idea what could cause this?
»SOS Posted June 12, 2005 Report Posted June 12, 2005 Any one of these: The drive could be borked.Windows could be borked.BIOS could be playing tricks.Something else could be borked. No way to solve this but trial and error.
»Maverick Posted June 12, 2005 Report Posted June 12, 2005 I would say to try to install newest drivers first, make sure that windows isn't the problem (reinstall windows?), update firmware of the cdrom. yup, as SOS already said, its trial and error. You can always contact your (local) manufacturer about this problem though.
Bajan Posted June 12, 2005 Report Posted June 12, 2005 Do you take care of your CD/DVD's? Dirty, and badly scratched discs can ruin a drive. Some Burner drives require ventilation (All burners i've had, had fans at the back of the drive), is it possible cables behind the drive are blocking ventilations holes?, this can cause dust to build up in the drive and screw the laser. Very rarely will an optical drive need drivers to work correctly, as they basically all work with the same principals, same with hard drives.
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