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Old 03-12-2007, 06:30 PM   #4 (permalink)
mattizzle
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Originally Posted by computerhakk View Post
You don't necessarily need to reinstall windows. Just find it's drivers if that's the case. Something else you can look into is if the lense and drive is dirty or dusty.

Additionally, when you say that itunes picks it up; is this true all the time? Or just sometimes. However, if you are referring to the discs starting up and running itself, such as iTunes automatically playing it, then you would have to set that up.

Are you talking about that? Or are you talking about the discs not reading at all? Such as, you go into "My Computer," click on your disc drive and see nothing in there or get an error such as "cannot read disc?" Why? Because when you go through the run command, I believe on default it only run program files such as .exe files and not media files. Unless the disc you tried were an installation disc with an executable file.
Yes itunes will pick up cd's every time, something strage happens with it too. After itunes had picked up the cd, I checked to see if the songs were showing in the DVD Frive, and sure enough it was there. With this box still open I popped out the CD and put a DVD in, and it then came up in the Frive! But when itunes gets closed, it won't pick it up again.

But to answer your question it's not picking discs up at all, it makes the noise as if it's trying to - but nothing appears on screen or in the Frive.
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