CD drive ...

[Gina Stevenson]

... suddenly not recognized. Have no idea how it could have happened!

Anyway, put a Christmas CD in to play it, nothing happened but a note about it not being recognized. I went to "My Computer," clicked on "CD" and nothing at all showed up, either. whoa !! Haven't had anything happen to this thing since getting it in September that's this weird!

No, it's not a SONY CD, either. hmmmmmm ....

Thanks for any help!

[Joel Merrill]

Try rebooting. That may not fix it but I always try the easy stuff first.

Joel

[Adam Spriggs]

After rebooting, I would try a different music CD in the drive.

Is it a CD that you created or someone you know created? I had issues before with certain brands of CDRs not reading well in other peoples drives.

It could be trying to autorun play the CD and there's something not right with the program it's attempting to run.

[Gina Stevenson]

it seemed to have needed a rebooting ... but why, tell me if you can, please.

Computers are soooo strange sometimes. ;)

thanks!

[Adam Spriggs]

<lame attempt at humor>
As soon as you first use your brand new computer it's starts dying. Reboots that seem to help things are a good start but it's a sign of sinful nature that needs cleansed -- it's that unknown bundle. Reformatting the hard drive is the true "conversion experience".
</lame attempt at humor>

[Gina Stevenson]

superfluous ... superfluous ... superfluous! your "<lame attempt at humor>" I mean! obvious from the context, eh, Adam! thanks for this helpful piece of "good(?) news!" ha! :p :rolleyes: :eek:

[edit: It's just not ready for a conversion experience yet! It's not backed up!! Also, 'just
realized, after getting this thing that writes CD's (if you're reading, Joel, I tried
DL'ing every driver I could find for that external CD writer way before I finally got
this computer with a writer in it, & it kept telling me it still needed one, and it
still wouldn't work ... refused to be recognized!) that I've got all CD-Rs, and no
CD-RWs. Sooo, it's a good thing that when Office Max kept having their freebies
where you could get stacks & stacks of blank CDs free with rebates for months
& months that I got a bunch of them, since back-ups can't be rewritten/changed
with each back-up. NOW, I'll have to make sure I dig & get them out to actually
start backing it up with those CD-Rs!! 'Suppose one might want to just do it once
or twice a week, since they need to be tossed, then, rather than rewritten. gs]


<lame attempt at humor>
As soon as you first use your brand new computer it's starts dying. Reboots that seem to help things are a good start but it's a sign of sinful nature that needs cleansed -- it's that unknown bundle. Reformatting the hard drive is the true "conversion experience".
</lame attempt at humor>

[Paul Ferguson]

After rebooting, I would try a different music CD in the drive.

Is it a CD that you created or someone you know created? I had issues before with certain brands of CDRs not reading well in other peoples drives.

It could be trying to autorun play the CD and there's something not right with the program it's attempting to run.

This can happen even with commercially prepared cd's. we have had it happen to at least one of ours we sent to a radio station and we have one of the nature sound cd's that will only work in one player we have. I don't know if this helps, but that's the news for now.:basic03

Paul

[Joel Merrill]

superfluous ... superfluous ... superfluous! your "<lame attempt at humor>" I mean! obvious from the context, eh, Adam! thanks for this helpful piece of "good(?) news!" ha! :p :rolleyes: :eek:

[edit: It's just not ready for a conversion experience yet! It's not backed up!! Also, 'just
realized, after getting this thing that writes CD's (if you're reading, Joel, I tried
DL'ing every driver I could find for that external CD writer way before I finally got
this computer with a writer in it, & it kept telling me it still needed one, and it
still wouldn't work ... refused to be recognized!) that I've got all CD-Rs, and no
CD-RWs. Sooo, it's a good thing that when Office Max kept having their freebies
where you could get stacks & stacks of blank CDs free with rebates for months
& months that I got a bunch of them, since back-ups can't be rewritten/changed
with each back-up. NOW, I'll have to make sure I dig & get them out to actually
start backing it up with those CD-Rs!! 'Suppose one might want to just do it once
or twice a week, since they need to be tossed, then, rather than rewritten. gs]
Gina

I don't know why the CD drive I gave you won't work. Some things are impossible to troubleshoot without being there. CDR's and CDRW's will both work on any computer CD drive. The only difference is that the CDRW's can be erased and used again but they cost a lot more. I use both depending on what I am using it for.

Joel

[Gina Stevenson]

Gina
CDR's and CDRW's will both*** work on any computer CD drive. The only difference is that the CDRW's can be erased and used again but they cost a lot more.*** I use both depending on what I am using it for.

Joel

***yes, I realize they will both work on a CD writer drive. But I just realized
after playing around with putting some stuff on a CD awhile back, then
trying a simple thing like a "rename" that they write only, and don't let
you change a thing after it's written. NO WONDER they were ones they
were giving free with rebate(s) ... once they're used, they're used! ;)