My CD/DVD burner isn't spinning???

FawkesFyre

I have a laptop...it has been very good to me until now. BUT, the internal cd/dvdburner/player isn't working.

Good:
1. It accepts commands both through software and manual to eject CDs...
2. is getting power,

Bad:
1. BUT it refuses to spin anything.
2. It will make about 6 little clicking noises like many of them do when it first reads something...then it just stops.
3. It also does not list there being anything in the drive when I check 'My Computer'

Any advice on where to go or what to do is appreciated.

Razer · 4934 5157 5662 5658 Gender: Joined: 07 Oct 2002

I've never taken apart a laptop but I've done PC nuilding for years now. You have two connections for a CD drive in a PC: the power and the communication. Assuming a laptop is the same, here's what I can offer:
If your drive is operating at all then the power for it is fine. If it's not reading on the "My Computer" screen then it's a communication problem. You'll have to open it up and check the connections and simply tighten the plug in. Hopefully. If it's bigger than that it could be anything from a physical problem with the motor (or maybe a broken band) all the way up to a glitch in your Windows (so you'd have to totally reinstall your OS). One thing with computers is that there's a billion things that *could* be wrong at any given time. Hopefully it's just a loose connection. Either way, I'd say you have to go inside of it. Go into the Setup when you reboot and check if it's recognized. If it is then it's a Windows thing. If it's not then it's a laptop thing.

Or you could just bang on the side. That always worked for my mom with anything electronic.

Just kidding...don't do that.

FawkesFyre · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

The problem is, I've never worked with the insides of a laptop..cracking it open kinda makes me nervous being that the rest of it works...I don't want to break the whole thing.

Legend · Queen of Terabithia Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2005

Mine does that sometimes. Usually I end up just taking it out, and putting it back in. Eventually it reads it. There are some games, however, that it simply -refuses- to read.

FawkesFyre · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

I think its been broken for a while now...I didn't think anything of it but, it did the same thing with a picture CD a few weeks ago.

I wonder if it would just be cheaper to pick up an external CD drive...burning stuff isn't such a big deal...

I know they make cases for hard drives...do they have something like that for cd burners? If there is, I could just pull my old one off my old PC