DVD-RW not reading

Adam135

Adam135

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I have a DVD-RW, it is being picked up by windows but it is not reading the disks, nor is it spinning.

Is there anything i could do or is it nackered. It is only 2 years old.
 
First check the ide cable to make sure it is in all the way and even try a different one to if that is the problem. It does sound more like the controller card on the drive is spent by the description there.
 
Are you reading it in a compatible drive? A reader or writer, certain ones don't always support certain formats, especially readers. I did have a DVD-RW that just went bad on me after about a year, i'd get errors using it, then I erased it, and it would hang when I tried to burn to it.
 
On the dvd-r/rw drive here you can certain cds like whatelse but the XP installation disk while it refuses to recognise cd-rs used for data backups. But the description other then putting in the wrong type of disk would be the drive itself. If you are seeing the drive's light during post time that would indicate a good drive trying to read the wrong disks.
 
So the drive reads nothing? Then if all connections are checked, maybe you should just get a new drive, they're cheap enough now. Exactly how does it fail, just a few passes and it stops, or does it try to read, then fail.
 
After two years of use it must likely has. If this was being seen in the first few months you would have known if it was defective or you had simply tried reading off of the wrong disk type. It's more likely the drive's motor that quit. Was that a good name brand drive or a generic? Lite-On, Sony, Plextor, and a few others like NEC usually are made durable enough to last for several years. The old expression of when in doubt throw it out seems to apply here.
 
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