CD/dvd drive not working

[Kataang]

Hi you guys.......

I have no idea what happened to it. Whenever i would put in a cd or dvd or anything in it nothing happens. i go to my computer and check if the cd is loaded but it says its empty plus when i checked the properties it says that it has 0 bytes used and 0 bytes of free space......soooo how do i fix that?

[plthayer]

That actually sounds like a problem with the drive itself. You can force windows to refresh it's settings by simply removing the drive from the device manager then restarting the system. It should re-install the drive and reset all of the stored settings for that drive, such as autoplay.

If that doesn't work it may just be the drive. They do go bad sometimes. To test this you can try to boot from a cd such as the windows xp install disc, if it won't even do that then i'd suggest trying another drive.