help!!! my cd drive doesnt work

my cd drive used to work ,read cds ,burn cds,ect. but the past few weeks my cd drive wont read anything or do anything and i know that compaq is big on that and thats exactly what i have hp compaq presario v6000. if theres anything you can do for my please.:cry

 

Have you tried booting to a CD? A Windows install CD, or 'live' CD like Knoppix or the UBCD4Win, even bootable memory diagnostic or hard drive diagnostic would work. If you can successfully boot to a CD, that would tell us that the CD is functionally OK (for reading CDs anyway) and that the problem is Windows/software based. Does the drive appear in the Device Manager? in My Computer? in the computer management console? and what version of Windows are we dealing with? XP? Vista?
Try booting to a CD. Then post with the results of that, and some more details, and we'll go from there......

 

ive tried booting to a cd and when i do that it doesnt do anything and yes the drive does show up in {my computer}. i am running windows xp

 

I think it's safe to say that the drive is bad. The fact that it doesn't boot tells us that the problem is not with Windows or with any software. Replacement drives can be easily found on Ebay; expect to pay about $30 for a used CDRW, maybe twice that for a DVDRW. A new DVDRW should be no more than $100