Re: DVD Drive -- "No Disc" error

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John wrote:

There's a problem that I've had several times with my DVD drive, and
it just happened again yesterday.

Basically, the system gets into a state where it says there is no disk
in the drive, even though there is. I've tried using different disks,
both new and previously-written, both CD and DVD, and it won't see any
of them Rebooting sometimes helps, sometimes not. Then after several
hours of doing nothing, it works again.

I've used Device Manager to check the drive and it says the device is
working properly. I tried removing it from device manager and letting
Windows rediscover it, and it announces that it has found new hardware
and properly identifies the make and model and seems to install it,
but still it doesn't work. I've even tried flashing the drive with
the latest firmware from the manufacturer's site (LITE-ON) and that
doesn't help either.

Has anybody else ever seen this sort of behavior or have an idea
what's going wrong? I've tried Googling around and found others
reporting similar problems, but the proposed solutions all seem to
involve installing some third-party software. Since Windows
eventually recovers and starts working again, I'd rather not clutter
up the system with add-on software that I don't need.

The system is using XP, SP2, kept current with Windows updates.

Usually when this happens it means the drive is in the process of dying.
DVD-RW drives are now cheap. Swap this one out for a known-working one and
if all is well, discard the original one. FWIW, I've completely stopped
buying Lite-On drives as I have found they have a high rate of failure.

Malke
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