How Do You Fix Reading Issues With An Optical Drive?
Reading or detection issues with an optical drive, or your CD/DVD drive, have the easiest fixes. As a technical support for a certain computer manufacturer, I enjoy getting calls for assistance in this kind of issue. There are not a lot of steps that you have to verify to isolate the issue to a hardware failure. Most of the time, it really isn’t. Customers would normally report that it had been working great until the system was restarted, the drive stopped working. Sometimes, the drive just wouldn’t read anymore. There are a few things that we need to check so that we can isolate if it’s a software issue or a total hardware failure. Step 1 First, we have to identify if the drive is detected by the operating system. It normally gets the default drive letter D: in My Computer. And if the drive does not appear in My Computer, you need to check if it’s detected in the BIOS, which you can press F2 or Delete for some computers. Step 2 If it shows up in My Computer, you need to know how it i
