cd and dvd read problems!!!

[romeo_8693]

mant times i've seen that pc cd-roms or dvd rather windows cannot detect presence of media in the drive(usually movie cd's and dvd's),but same cd's & dvd's work on dedicated vcd/dvd players.why does this happen??is there any way u can make windows detect the presence of media??

[gary4gar]

it usally happens with older drives.just clean the drive internally.it happens due to dust.

[romeo_8693]

i dont think so,cos every time i put the same cd ov dvd it says insert media.its surely not bcos of dust.......i think it has something to do with the way the cd or dvd was burned!

[QwertyManiac]

Its because of formats supported/not supported in case of DVDs i guess...

[Third Eye]

Update CD/DVD drivers from Device Manager.

[janitha]

Originally Posted by romeo_8693

mant times i've seen that pc cd-roms or dvd rather windows cannot detect presence of media in the drive(usually movie cd's and dvd's),but same cd's & dvd's work on dedicated vcd/dvd players.why does this happen??is there any way u can make windows detect the presence of media??

I think you will find the following link useful which contains answers to a similar question posted by me
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/view...asc&highlight=

V.Prem Kumar

[marshalll]

Facing the same problem.
It do not read the disc although it show under my computer and BIOS.

[aminsagar123]

my "Sony DVD RW AW-G170A" drive had this kinda problem. I was unable to play movie dvds.

I modified the firmware to "Optiarc AD-7170A 1.04 BT" with Binflash utility and its permanently fixed now