DVD Drive not working

Corrosive Monkey

Ok, my DVD drive is being very wierd, if a place a CD or DVD in there it does not start to spin, and if I go to my computer, the disk drive will not have any recognised disk showing. But what makes it weirder is that If I go to VLC and select a film it will load the film.

So does this sound like a broken drive, needs new drivers?

wazilla

So you go to VLC and it recognizes the disc in the drive but Windows Explorer *doesn't* ?

Corrosive Monkey

yes.

wazilla

hmmm... So it doesn't auto run anything you put in there? I assume the disc starts to spin once you open up VLC (because the alternative isn't possible). This sounds more like a windows corruption issue than a driver issue... I'm not sure how it's possible that VLC would accomplish something through windows (recognizing the disc in the drive) that windows itself could not accomplish... but someone here may know better.

vonPoonBurGer

Corrosive Monkey wrote: »

if I go to my computer, the disk drive will not have any recognised disk showing. But what makes it weirder is that If I go to VLC and select a film it will load the film.

If you put a disc in, and go to My Computer, and double-click on the DVD drive icon, what happens? If you get an error, what is the specific error message?

mts

actually sounds like my laptop, but my drive will spin when i put in a disc, but no loading.. whats VLC, i can check if mine works like yours. i think mine is a bad connection, i need to go in and reseat the drive, but i haven't really needed the drive to work

Urian

I'm getting the same problem. With certain DVD's, I put it in and it shows the disc spinning icon as if it's reading it, but then after a while it stops and when I look under my computer and the DVD section, it says there is no DVD in the drive.

Corrosive Monkey

If I double click the DVD drive it just opens up the drive folder but it is empty.

VLC is a media player.

mts

hmm i don't even have a disc drive icon to click

Scrublet

mts wrote: »

hmm i don't even have a disc drive icon to click

Sounds like your drive might be dead. I've been using my own built computers now since I was a sophomore in high school (I'm finishing up my fifth and final year in college now) and optical drives have been hands down the most frequently replaced part. Usually it starts with disks not being recognized and ends with either your problem above, or in other cases extremely odd hardware behavior across the board.

mts

yea i wouldn't be surprised. but it boggles me in that occaisonally the drive does show up and works normal

mts

so i think i fixed my drive, i took it out and reseated it, and low and behold, i have a dvd drive. will need to see how long it lasts