CD ROM Drive won't read anymore

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hoppi

• Jan 27, 2007

• #1

Hey,
my cd rom drive is about 2 and a half year, funtioned without any problems, and all of a sudden, it went totally crazy today.
I even burned the last CD about 2-3 days ago.
I put in a old Ghost Recon CD yesterday which it didn't read and it began to spin "endless-ly" (<-?).
So today it continues with this crap, it doesn't any Audio CDs, normal Data CDs and DVDs...
It's a drive from a Fujitsu Siemens-Laptop and it would be a pain in the ass to send it all in.

 

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• Jan 27, 2007

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hoppi,

When an optical drive goes there really isn't much you can do about it other than go buy a new one (and they are fairly inexpensive nowadays). But you can do a few things.

First, open up your case and make sure that the cables attached to the drive and mobo are tight (there are two or three cables).

Second, if you have spare cables, replace the existing ones and see if that does any good (probably won't).

Lastly, if neither of those work, replace the drive.

Hope that helps.

 

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• Jan 28, 2007

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another solution

open up your drive and use a magnifiying glass to look at the IR-eye, the small glassthing inside your drive.
there could be a hair or other dustpartikel on that.
I was having the same problem and it was caused by a hair on the readers-eye.

 

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hoppi

• Jan 29, 2007

• #4

Alright, so far it burns and reads Audio CDs again, which is enough so far. If it burns Audio CDs, I'm sure it'll do Data CDs.

What I did was to clean the lens a bit, well I tried to, and I pushed this thing -where the lens is stuck to- around a little bit with brute force because it didn't move at all first, but -no worries- when I got it to move I stopped with my powerful force.

Well, after having burned an Audio CD and enjoying the working drive, I inserted the driver CD for my new Bluetooth Stick and it ticked off again. Like yesterday. Sooo ... don't have a clue here.

 

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• Jan 29, 2007

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hoppi,

Well, I'm glad that its working at the moment but I'd start saving a few bucks for a new drive. Nowadays they just don't seem to last that long. I will say that I'd start looking at Sony drives. I have nothing to back that up (as far as optical drives are concerned) but many of their other products seem to last fairly well.

 

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hoppi

• Feb 14, 2007

• #6

mindido said:

hoppi,

Well, I'm glad that its working at the moment but I'd start saving a few bucks for a new drive.

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Weow. Why didn't I see that answer?

So: Yep, you're right. I am already putting back some money for a new laptop, preferably a hp or ibm model...

 

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• Jun 10, 2007

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man u can tale it out opan it clean its lens with thinner and then try it if it dsnt work then geet new one 2.5years! its already retired

 

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• Jun 17, 2008

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I'd just buy a new drive. Get a super-fast DVD burner from newegg for about $30 shipped.

 

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• Dec 3, 2008

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Is it a Phillips? I bought one of their drives along time ago and the thing melted on me... they upgraded it and it melted again... I hate their crap. Don't buy Phillips brand anything.

 

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• May 16, 2009

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ok sorry but the solution was way easy and no one seen it, They said the reader eye mount was stuck he gave it a push and it worked for awile agine. a drop of good old oil on the moving mechanism and the moter to would have fixed it up. (mabe less then a drop, you dont want splater.) it was just getting stuck. sorry to post on such an old thread but theres your solution way to late to help, mabe someone else will come acrossed this and it will help them.

 

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• Aug 9, 2009

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Suggest you go either dvd or bluray burner-it looks like your old one has had it.
Heres one that looks good $49.99

New! HP - 24x Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
Model: DVD1260i | SKU: 9402247

Up to 8.5GB/4 hours using DVD±R DL media; up to 24x DVD+R and DVD-R write speeds; up to 12x DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL write speeds

This is from best buy

 

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• Oct 31, 2009

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skipper said:

Suggest you go either dvd or bluray burner-it looks like your old one has had it.
Heres one that looks good $49.99

New! HP - 24x Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
Model: DVD1260i | SKU: 9402247

Up to 8.5GB/4 hours using DVD±R DL media; up to 24x DVD+R and DVD-R write speeds; up to 12x DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL write speeds

This is from best buy

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Never pay retail for pc components EVER

www.tigerdirect.com or www.newegg.com

Further never buy dell or hp parts, and don't think you get more buy paying more. BestBuy can eat a rotten cheese dick!