MY disk drive wont work!

Hello, my disk drive fails to load any cd.... is there a setting in windows xp that could be causing this?

Thanks

Doug

explain more, what does it do exactly?

any weird noise, spin ups and spin downs..ect...

I open disk drive, put cd in. Makes no noise then light goes off as if nothing happenes. Bascially it cant recognize that anything is there.

Thanks
Doug

dougy,
First , with a CD in the drive & the tray all the way in, go to: Start>Run.
In the Run box type X:\ ( X is the letter of your CD-ROM Drive - usually D:\ )& hit OK. If the CD now runs, you'll have to make a small change in your Registry.
Go to: Start>Run & type regedit & hit OK. This will open the Registry Editor window. in the left pane, click on the little +'s to expand the strings.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom.
Click on the cdrom folder to open it. In the right hand pane , find Autorun. Highlight & right click autorun & click Modify. Change the value to 1 & reboot.

If the registry value already is 1, go to Start>Control Panel. click Hardware & then Device Manager. Click on the + by CD-ROM & double click your CD-ROM. sClick Properties & check that it's working properly & enabled. If none of this works, open your case & check your cable & power connections. If everything appears OK, then your CD-ROM is likely Toast.
Good Luck!
-Dave

what sort of cd? I had a CD-RW drive that wouldnt read cd-rw's but it would burn them, just not read them afterwards.

If you could download AIM that would be awesome. I am running out of options, and the errors seem more occuring.. I cant even play cs for more then about 40 min before the computer just locks up. My aim - IHateCS16 Thank you, Doug