"Johnny5" <johnc***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hRrXd.13103$ug2.9748@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> Tonight my DVD ROM and my DVD R/W stopped reading all types of disks, I
> have
> looked in device manager and they are both listed and it says that they
> are
> both working correctly.  I updated the firmware of both drives and still
> they dont work. I am running XP Pro and I have just restored my system
> back
> by 2 days and now the DVD R/W is working fine but not the DVD Rom. The
> drive
> is a Liteon and is only about 6 months old with little use so I'm pretty
> sure the drive is not faulty.  The drive is trying to read the disks but
> cant and I have tried all sorts of disks.  Is there something I can check
> or
> do to try and solve this problem please?
>
> Thank's,
>
> John.
>
>

> Try going to the system folder, then device manager, and remove the
> DVD-ROM from the system. Restart the computer and Windows will find
> it again. See if that jolts it back to use. Maybe the driver got
> corrupted and Windows needs to reinstall it.
>
> Then the sure way I'd check to see if it is truly a hardware problem
> is to go set your bios to start with the CD-ROM drive, and then place
> the Windows CD in the Lite-on drive. Reboot the computer and see if
> it starts loading the Windows files to do an installation. If it does
> then you know that the drive is working and most likely this is a
> software related problem.
>> Hi,
>>
>> Tonight my DVD ROM and my DVD R/W stopped reading all types of
>> disks, I have
>> looked in device manager and they are both listed and it says that
>> they are
>> both working correctly.  I updated the firmware of both drives and
>> still they dont work. I am running XP Pro and I have just restored
>> my system back
>> by 2 days and now the DVD R/W is working fine but not the DVD Rom.
>> The drive
>> is a Liteon and is only about 6 months old with little use so I'm
>> pretty sure the drive is not faulty.  The drive is trying to read
>> the disks but cant and I have tried all sorts of disks.  Is there
>> something I can check or
>> do to try and solve this problem please?
>>
>> Thank's,
>>
>> John.

> Try going to the system folder, then device manager, and remove the
DVD-ROM
> from the system. Restart the computer and Windows will find it again. See
if
> that jolts it back to use. Maybe the driver got corrupted and Windows
needs
> to reinstall it.
>
> Then the sure way I'd check to see if it is truly a hardware problem is to
> go set your bios to start with the CD-ROM drive, and then place the
Windows
> CD in the Lite-on drive. Reboot the computer and see if it starts loading
> the Windows files to do an installation. If it does then you know that the
> drive is working and most likely this is a software related problem.
>
> --
> Jan Alter
> bear***@verizon.net
> or
> jal***@phila.k12.pa.us
> "Johnny5" <johnc***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:hRrXd.13103$ug2.9748@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tonight my DVD ROM and my DVD R/W stopped reading all types of disks, I
> > have
> > looked in device manager and they are both listed and it says that they
> > are
> > both working correctly.  I updated the firmware of both drives and still
> > they dont work. I am running XP Pro and I have just restored my system
> > back
> > by 2 days and now the DVD R/W is working fine but not the DVD Rom. The
> > drive
> > is a Liteon and is only about 6 months old with little use so I'm pretty
> > sure the drive is not faulty.  The drive is trying to read the disks but
> > cant and I have tried all sorts of disks.  Is there something I can
check
> > or
> > do to try and solve this problem please?
> >
> > Thank's,
> >
> > John.
> >
> >
>
>