CD/DVD drive not reading media

[sjp81]

Greetings,

Here's the deal; I have a Toshiba SD-R5272. Every time i put a piece of media in it (doesn't matter whether it's an audio CD, a DVD, a regular CD), nothing happens. It was working fine this morning. The computer froze up and I was forced to manually shut it off and since then, nothing. The drive icon is there in the my computer folder but when i open it, it's empty.. I've checked in the device manager and there are no conflicts. When I click on the properties, it says everything i s working for the drive. The little green light next to the ejector button blinks twice then stops every time i insert a CD/DVD. I have no clue what the problem could be. Any help would be greatly appriciated.

 

[jstillion]

Try removing the device in the device manger and reboot and see if windows picks them back up. If they don't you may have something else wrong / file corruption on windows.

You can also try [Run] sfc /checknow to scan and repair all your windows files (may require XP cd) in case some file were hosed when you had to shut down the pc.

 

[sjp81]

jstillion - thanx for the quick reply. I tried remove it via the device manager then rebooting. Windows tells me new hardware has been installed (and the name of the drive) so it is seeing it.

Can I do sfc /checknow without the Windows CD? I'd have no idea how to get it to work as the drive won't recognize any CD. If you can do it wihtout, what do I do? Simply type that in the run box?