CD Rom

Here is my problem. I copied a cd, and after that, my cd drive won't read anything thats put in there. It won't reconize any cd's/dvd's at all it's like the drive is not there. Can anyone help me with this?confused

 

when I click on my computer my C drive is there, when I put a cd in and click open it just says please insert cd in the cd rom drive, so I have no idea what to do now

 

oh.....I have windows XP home edition ( I am pretty sure its the home edition)

 

Did you mean CD drive or C: drive?

I sure hope your C: drive was there. It's your CD drive that we need to know about. It'll be labelled "D:" or higher.

And what happens when you open the drive, put a disk in it, then close the drive -- using the button on the front of the drive to open and close the tray?

 

ok. Fristly my C drive is there, my D drive is there and my CD/DVD drive is there. I see them when I click on my computer.

As for what happens when I put a CD in..........absoloutely nothing. It's like its trying to read it, and then a box pops up asking my to insert a disk in the drive.

 

I'm wondering if the laser that reads the disk has failed. If it's gone, the drive can't read a disk (much less burn another), and it would behave as if there was no disk mounted.

Make sure that you try the drive with a disk that you know the drive was previously able to read. If no go, it's time to buy another drive. They're cheap enough that it's not worth spending a lot of time on.

To put that another way: the cost of a replacement drive will buy maybe a half-hour of a techie's time if you have to pay shop rates for it. (Now you know why the landfills are full of old computer stuff)