DVD drive quit working

Ethan3.14159

Ethan3.14159

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I took my computer over to a friends house for a LAN party. One of my friends DVD drive couldn't read dual-layer discs, so I took mine out and put it in his computer. It worked perfectly fine in his and then we put it back in my computer. Well, I decide to run the DVD drive for the first time since then, and it doesn't work at all. The disc cursor comes up on the screen, but the disc doesn't even begin to spin. Whenever I click on the DVD Drive icon Windows Explorer stops responding, and it has to restart. I have no idea what's going on and it's rather frustrating. Any help would be great, thanks.
 
It's an IDE drive, but there was no software with the drive when I got it. The computer still picks up the drive, and it sees that it is a Optiarc DVD drive. I just tried looking for firmware or drivers, and there was nothing.
 
Go into your device manager to the DVD and right click on it and hit uninstall and reboot. If that doesnt fix it, check on the IDE controller its on and see what mode its running in. Should be atleast DMA/UDMA.
 
Yeah, I tried my old ribbon cable and it didn't work. I ordered a new sata dvd drive today.. not exactly where I want $25 to go, but oh well. If I somehow fix it I'll have 2.
 
Atleast prices dropped through the floor with CD/DVD burners. I can remember when a CD burner was the thing a few years ago, cost over 200 bucks. Now you can get a CD/DVD/Dual layer/Read/write/-/+/RAM blah blah blah drive for 25 or 30 bucks.
 
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