Arkroyal
31st May 2011, 10:30
I've got a fairly new Packard Bell Desktop (I'd like to fix it myself as I don't really want the inconvenience of returning it yet)
I burnt a DVD a while ago, and tried to repeat the operation, but the machine kept asking for a disk, even though one was in the drive.
I now find the disk drive will not read any DVDs at all, and goes into a loop of trying to read and failing and so on. Eventually, the drawer will open, and I can grab the disk before it closes again and repeats the cycle.
It's running Windows 7, which tries to be clever and diagnose the problem, but doesn't of course.
With CDs it's fine!
The device manager assures me that all is well, but the problem persists.
I wonder if it's a hardware or driver problem?
I burnt a DVD a while ago, and tried to repeat the operation, but the machine kept asking for a disk, even though one was in the drive.
I now find the disk drive will not read any DVDs at all, and goes into a loop of trying to read and failing and so on. Eventually, the drawer will open, and I can grab the disk before it closes again and repeats the cycle.
It's running Windows 7, which tries to be clever and diagnose the problem, but doesn't of course.
With CDs it's fine!
The device manager assures me that all is well, but the problem persists.
I wonder if it's a hardware or driver problem?