DVD Burner/ CD-RW drive Detects but wont run

[DCBNSB]

Ive Been having Trouble with my Lite-on DVD CD RW combo drive.
the drive will detect disks allowing me to access via Explore and open but when i want the application to start i get prompted to insert the disk into the drive.
And it wont even detect my Monitors software disk. But i did get it to work with my BF2142 DVD but i had to Explore the Disk and click on the auto run and from there it went.

 

[mscrx]

not all drives read all media from all vendors but its possible that you only have to clean the laser with a cleaning cd. worst case would be that the drive has lost it. maybe you should just go for a new drive. they are cheap and support dvd-rw and so on as well.

 

[kimsland]

Autoplay Repair Wizard by Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...B6-E8FA-45C4-A171-1B389CFACDAD&displaylang=en

In case you were just speaking of the autoplay error

 

[mscrx]

don't think so because when he runs a program from disk manually it asks for a disk

 

[kimsland]

allowing me to access via Explore and open but when i want the application to start i get prompted to insert the disk into the drive.

Example of what I think:
User runs setup from explorer, error message displays that program must be run from main menu, please re-insert disc to display main setup menu

Please reply back DCBNSB, we can't both be right !
More info required.

 

[mscrx]

ok, that makes sense (even to me lol)
well lets see what he says... and whether we can help him.

 

[DCBNSB]

Ok i did the auto play fix. and i added another CD drive and it reads fine.... i think that my drive lost it.... sigh .... walmart fall apart

 

[mscrx]

ok then, hardware going bad happens every day. but its one of the cheaper parts so...