How
old is it?
Optical
drives have a limited life. Often the lasers can develop
difficulties reading the disk. The spinning is usually the
drive seeking and failing to find data or TOF for a
finalised disk. Failing to eject can be tha the drive is in
a state where it doesn’t know if there is a disk present or
not.
I’d
suggest trying a laser cleaning disk as your next step
though, unless you’ve already done that.
You
can also eliminate software problems by checking if a
plug-in USB optical drive still works. (I have a few old
laptops where the built in drive doesn’t work, but a USB
drive still does)
Hope
this helps
Hi
All
This
is a bizarre one and I have tried Duck Duck Going but not
getting anywhere. The DVD player was working fine and
reading DVDs without any problems. It has stopped reading
them I think. I have tried multiple dvds so I know it is not
that. The disk is whirling like it is working but doesn't
mount the disk. I'm not sure if it is the player or whether
something is not working internally. Sometimes it rejects
the dvd and other times not. Under devices it lists the dvd
player as cd-rom, not sure if that makes a difference.
Any
help would be much appreciated.
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Kind regards
Richard Brown
Youth Worker
07546 804439
