DVD Drive failing

[b737lvr]

When I put a DvD in my DvD drive, it wont read it. At all. I have already deleted the mount thing in the registry that didn't do anything.

What is weird is I dont hear the DVD Drive spinning the disk thus causing it not to read. Can anyone help?

EDIT: lol and for the sake of trainz I am asking because I have been trying to re-install my trainz 2006. This happens with all my CD's though. It was happening with my FS2004 but one day it just worked. Now it doesnt again

 

[clam1952]

Tried cleaning it? Checked the cables are fitting properly? Removed the driver and rebooted, in case its got corrupted, Windows will re-install the driver after the reboot
Other than that DVD drives do die, especially if used a lot.

 

[nugget2225]

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you can get a new dvd burner for 20 bucks from tiger direct i daubt that will make or break you, even the blu-ray burners are around 100

 

[4ndylloyd]

This has hapended to me several times. When they fail I just replace them. Its an easy job and doesn't break the bank

Andy

 

[lewisner]

When I built my new PC I used the DVD drive from my old PC then replaced it because it seemed to be faulty and I kept getting messages like "This Disk is corrupt or unreadable". It turned out I was using unapproved RAM - got better RAM and everything ran fine.

 

[Deano5]

New drive for $20, are you kidding, shop around, my brand new LG light scribe was less than that. If mine gets dirty and needs cleaning I just throw it away now as they are so cheap to buy.
I do remember paying over £70 ($140) for a topnotch one a few years ago, the kids now have that one. :hehe:

 

[b737lvr]

Is there any legal way for me to install Trainz 2006 without using MY computers Drive?

 

[johnwhelan]

I had problems with a couple of LG drives not writing CDs correctly. I was directed to LITE-ON by the creator of imgburn, apparently they make most drives these days including ASUS and Plextor and I must confess it works very well.

The model I picked up was the iHAS524-T98A which apparently a month ago had the latest chip set. LITE-ON apparently release firmware upgrades from time to time which are not always made available on their relabeled products.

Cheerio John

 

[JCitron]

I had problems with a couple of LG drives not writing CDs correctly. I was directed to LITE-ON by the creator of imgburn, apparently they make most drives these days including ASUS and Plextor and I must confess it works very well.

The model I picked up was the iHAS524-T98A which apparently a month ago had the latest chip set. LITE-ON apparently release firmware upgrades from time to time which are not always made available on their relabeled products.

Cheerio John

I've had similar problems with LG. For some reason, the calibration goes off on the hardware, so the heads go out of alignment.

I tend to pay a little bit more for DVD drives and have had excellent luck with old faithful Sony ones. I've gone the cheap route and replaced several drives, but the old venerable Sony keeps chugging along without any problems. As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. Sometimes it's worth the extra bucks (like $40 instead of less than $20) and getting a longer life from the hardware.

John

 

[jeffmorris]

Pioneer DVD drives are good. Don't buy cheap DVD drives.

 

[NikkiA]

Pioneer DVD drives are good. Don't buy cheap DVD drives.

It depends on what you call 'cheap drives', LiteOn are the best brand, and manufacture most drives other companies sell. They're also pretty much the cheapest brand (because unlike the other brands, they're not adding on yet another level of profit on top of LiteOn's base costs + profits)

 

[RRSignal]

Actually, I think Lite-On (and, thus, many other brands) are actually made by Ricoh.

Either way, it's important to get a burner that is capable of bitsetting DVD+R as DVD-ROM, if you do any video work and use +Rs. Lite-Ons do though I forget if you have to set it each time or you can just set it once.

I agree, LG's are junk.

 

[JCitron]

Actually, I think Lite-On (and, thus, many other brands) are actually made by Ricoh.

Either way, it's important to get a burner that is capable of bitsetting DVD+R as DVD-ROM, if you do any video work and use +Rs. Lite-Ons do though I forget if you have to set it each time or you can just set it once.

I agree, LG's are junk.

A little story about LG DVD drives, as you know I'm good for stories...

Quite a number of years, I replaced an old CD-ROM drive. I went to my usual computer store, CompUSA and came home with an LG CD. This was way before CDRs were under $50, let alone $30.

Anyway, I put the new drive, it powered up fine, went to read a CD, and the drive went BZZZZZZ sound. I ended up replacing the drive with a new one, which worked fine after that for the longest time. In fact the old computer was retired with the same CD reader in it.

The funny thing is, to this day, my bro teases me about that drive. He'll look at me and say the CD Drive goes BZZZZZ and I'll know exactly what he's talking about.

Anyway, I've had good luck with Richo drives, but even better with NEC if you can find them.

John

 

[nugget2225]

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I believe pioneer is the best as well, i have had all kinds of trouble with lg and hp drives, and since most computers went from ide to ahci my cd drive doesnt seem to like ahci mode very well anyway, but i paid 300 for my pioneer blu-ray burner a year ago and its amazing if you wait how quick prices drop,waiting on the ssd drives to drop now and become more reliable with more space