I have a Toshiba SD-R5372 DVD Rewriteable Drive. I got it a few months ago and my brother set it up for me. I used it for a while and it worked fine and then I stopped and I haven't used it since. However, yesterday I needed to use it, so I put in a DVD. Unfortunately, the drive could not detect the DVD. Naturally, I put in another DVD to see if it was a faulty disc, however this was not the case. The drive could not detect CD's either. So I'm wondering if you people could tell me what you think the problem is. I'll try anything.
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Anonymous2006-11-13 15:45
try a lens cleaner.
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Anonymous2006-11-13 15:49
The drive can't detect any discs at all. How would a lens cleaner help?
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what do you mean by "can't detect any discs at all"? if the drive doesn't even spin up when you put a new disc in, it's a hardware or a power problem. if the drive spins up, but can't figure out that there's a valid CD or a DVD in there, it could just be a read problem, which may be caused by a dirty lens. or it could be a hardware or a power problem. but the lens cleaner is the cheaper solution.
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Anonymous2006-11-13 16:16
Ok, idk how to use a lens cleaner.
I think it spins, it opens up and I put the disc and it closes and then the little light on my computer goes on and then nothnig happens. I go to my computer and I open the drive and nothings there.
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Anonymous2006-11-13 16:37
Put any bootable CD in (Linux live CD, even your Windows CD) and see if you can boot off it. That will tell you whether the problem is hardware-related or a Windows screwup. No = dead drive, yes = fucked up driver or similar.