DVD drive that thinks its a CD drive...

[hdmk]

I've had a crappy BDV-108A (8x DVD) drive for a couple of years now (it came with my old computer)..

Recently its had trouble opening - gets stuck, so you have to pull it open

more worringly, it won't read DVD's anymore...

Is there anything I can do?

EDIT: Interestingly, under my computer it appears as "CD Drive" rather than "DVD Drive" [WinXP Pro] - but it has an option under properties to select DVD region....hmmm

I know I could just buy a new DVD drive for £30, but if I can fix the problem that would be cheaper.....

Thanks.

 

[Phantasm66]

That happened to a DVD drive of mine.

It could only read CDs and DVDs were spat back out.

I binned it.

It is possible it could have just needed cleaning, but I doubt it.

 

[hdmk]

weird.

I re-install WinDVD, and it suddenly recognises DVD's again. Before it wouldn't even recognise data DVD's.

 

[Phantasm66]

Good job you never followed my advice and put it in the bin, then.

That could be an ASPI problem, or something similar on a low level.

The drive in my example would not physically take a DVD, it would eject it immediately, indicating a serious hardware fault.

 

[Freezingrave]

This sounds like my problem, but mine's a little different, Window's says that my DVD drive is a CD Drive, and I got it to play movie DVD's but I can not get it to read data DVD's. Do I need a DVD Burner to read Data DVD's? Any help would help me a lot. Thanks

 

[mikescorpio81]

Sounds like u should scrap it! Or keep it 4 something to do ... open it up! Why not?!

I bought a DVD-RW recently for AUD$60! Bargain (& thats an ASUS)

Cheap as chips really ... :grinthumb

 

[ripken204]

same thing happened to me until a disk got stuck in it so i stripped the drive pulling the tray out