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CD-ROM Drive not responding on Vista Laptop

  • 04-07-2010 05:17AM
    #1
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭


    I was wondering if there was anyone out there that would could shed light on a problem I'm having with my laptop. Just recently the CD drive has stopped operating and won't respond. The device manager still recognises it and says there are no problems but it won't open if I press the eject button and none of the software on the laptop can access the drive.

    By inserting a pin I can open the drive manually, but the CD's inside are not recognised or run automatically as they normally should be. It's very annoying as I had just bought some new Anti-Virus software on CD that I wanted to install and now I find I can't, should I consider resinstalling Vista?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Have you tried to re-seat the cd-rom drive? Usually these are only held in by one screw and other than that should pop right out, and back in just as easilly.


  • #3
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    I haven't tried that Overheal. It's a bit late now and I'm just off to bed but I'll try this tomorrow and let you know how it works out.


  • #4
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    The problem seemed to fix itself D:


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