Optical drive

[miriam]

My optical drive is having trouble reading discs. I put a disc in the drive, close drawer, and the access light goes on. The drive starts to spin, and then the light goes out and stops. can anyone help please?

[zepper]

Are you sure the disk is supposed to have autorun on it? Or someone may have disabled the "run on insert" feature.

.bh.

[miriam]

Yes it has autorun. It is not disable. I try the disc on the other drive, and it works ok

[Jarhed7276]

Miriam, look at the disk in Windows explorer and see if there is a autorun.exe file on it. If there isn't that's why it won't run.

[miriam]

I already check that, and its there. I also click on my computer, and right click on the disc autorun. it seen like it wants to start, light goes on and then it stops

[Jarhed7276]

Quote:

Originally Posted by miriam

I try the disc on the other drive, and it works ok

Sorry, Miriam. I read that wrong. I read it as you put another disk in the drive.

What happens if you put another disk in that drive? Will it autorun?

[miriam]

Ok maybe I explain this wrong. When I put a disc in the E drive it wants to start but it doesn't. I than try the disc in the D drive and that one starts with no problem.

[Jarhed7276]

Miriam, you explained it fine I just read it wrong.

Try any other disk in the E:\ drive and see if it will autorun.

[miriam]

I try that already. I don't get it. It seens like it wants to start with the light on, and than light goes off and it stops. I try blowing the drive with a blower, I thought maybe it might have dust in it. But nothing

[Jarhed7276]

Did it autorun with another disk?

Other than this autorun problem are there any other problems with the E:\ drive? Can it otherwise read data from a cd?