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My CD drive isnt working. It does not detect cds...

any idea of how to fix it?

Are you sure the "cds" you're putting in aren't really, really, really flat doughnuts?

hmmm...this may be a guess but it's probably doubling over as a slave drive for one of your other drives such as the floppy drive. you can go to My Computer and try and fix it. how though, is beyond me.

Originally posted by G a n n o n
My CD drive isnt working. It does not detect cds...

any idea of how to fix it?


Smack it around a few times,preferably using something heavy and solid,like a hammer or a baseball bat

My mate had this problem. Try changing the region of the drive. To do so go to:

Control Panel-System-Hardware- Device Manager

When there select the drive and theres an option to change the regions

Originally posted by TheOnes2
My mate had this problem. Try changing the region of the drive. To do so go to:

Control Panel-System-Hardware- Device Manager

When there select the drive and theres an option to change the regions
i dont see anything for the region?

i tryed reinstalling it but it still doesnt work.

region selection should be somewhere in the top tob's

It could just have packed up, anything really. CD Drive errors are numerous to say the least.

General, Properties, Volumes, Driver, Details are all the tabs on the top.

This is what im getting

i dont have a dvd player on my computer. maybe thats why.

If an error message is coming up do a search for the problem.

There are no regions for CD's.

Try restoring your comp to a date when the drive worked. I did that once and it fixed the problem