Thread: CD drive not working

  1. #1
    NotSoAvgProgrammer
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Location
    Virginia, U.S.
    Posts
    57

    CD drive not working

    Hey guys, my cd drive isn't working. How can I make sure that this is due to the hardware, or software?

    I can't load anything from my cd drive, it doesn't even show up on windows explorer.

    Thanks,

    Joe
    A quality job is not necessarily a *good* job. A quality job is, by definition, conformance to requirements. Therefore a *good* job, may not be a quality job.

  2. #2
    Kernel hacker
    Join Date
    Jul 2007
    Location
    Farncombe, Surrey, England
    Posts
    15,677
    Does it show up in the BIOS when you start the machine?

    --
    Mats
    Compilers can produce warnings - make the compiler programmers happy: Use them!
    Please don't PM me for help - and no, I don't do help over instant messengers.

  3. #3
    Devil's Advocate SlyMaelstrom's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2004
    Location
    Out of scope
    Posts
    4,079
    Were you messing around inside of your computer? Perhaps the IDE ribbon (or SATA cable) was knocked loose. As mat asked, does it show up in your BIOS? If not, does the drive open/close? If so, just check the connections in the back of the drive and in the motherboard. Make sure everything is secure.
    Sent from my iPadŽ

Popular pages Recent additions subscribe to a feed

Similar Threads

  1. Extracting data from a laptop hard drive
    By DavidP in forum Tech Board
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: 06-13-2009, 07:02 AM
  2. Back To The Basics: Freeing An Array on the Heap?
    By Deo in forum C++ Programming
    Replies: 12
    Last Post: 04-07-2007, 04:42 AM
  3. Ugh. CD Drive letter changed on bootup
    By Stan100 in forum Tech Board
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 09-17-2004, 03:38 PM
  4. CD rom troubles...
    By Shadow in forum A Brief History of Cprogramming.com
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: 11-08-2003, 10:56 PM
  5. How to encrypt a CD perfectly?
    By Yin in forum A Brief History of Cprogramming.com
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 03-13-2002, 09:02 AM