Help! my DVD drive has packed up i can put a disk in but nothing works and i cant open a disk by going to my computer.

Hiya Taz

DVD Drive R/W ? is it a Rom ? are the drivers there ? and when was the last time you used it hun ?

Glad your here its a R-W Light-on and i was using it this morning, working fine i just put my pc on and now the drive wont work ? need your help please babe

OK

Go > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager you will see DVD/CD Rom Drives open the tree (click on the + ) left of the name right click on your Lite-on DVD R/W in the dropdown click properties now at the top you will see Driver click that tab and tell me what you see ?

I have driver provider, driver date, digital signer blank ? do i need a new driver Cat ?

Do you see Driver Version ?

Yes sorry thats blank as well

Your Driver has jumped its not a problem if it was just corrupt you would of had something "it happens" and the uninstall tab don't always fix it after reboot, so we are going to do it the hard and fast way >

Switch off the Computer take off the side panel "so you can get to the DVD R/W" (use a static strap, or as your only touching cables hold the metal inside of your case, disconnect the data and power to the DVD R/W Drive (and make sure there not near any fans boot your Computer let windows load then shut it down , replace the power and data cables and boot the Computer, now try the DVD R/W Drive

OK do that now

WORKING !!!! thats ace Cindy thanks babe (you should be tech adviser here) i can have a look at the partition program now, thanks again see you here soon, Taz X