Hello guys....
I have a Dell Dimension 8400 with Windows XP.
A while back my D: Drive, which was my DVD/RW, disappeared from MY Computer and stopped working. I made no changes before that and never noticed it missing until I tried to run a music CD I had bought. It had started to give me trouble opening and closing sometimes when I pressed the button but it worked.
I decided to take the cdrw out of another computer I have and try that. I put in the new cdrw, went into device manager, deleted what was in there and restarted to reinstall the unit and drivers. When I check for driver updates it says the current drivers are up to date.
Still no D: showing up in My Computer.
Searching the forums today I noticed the CD GONE advice to another poster and tried that. Now the D: drive shows up in My Computer again (woot!) However, after inserting another CD in the drive, I get a little whirring, some blinking light, but still nothing.
Clicking on the D: drive in my computer only says "Please insert a disk in Drive D:" .
Any ideas what could be wrong? This is my only disk drive and it's making me crazy.
I have a Dell Dimension 8400 with Windows XP.
A while back my D: Drive, which was my DVD/RW, disappeared from MY Computer and stopped working. I made no changes before that and never noticed it missing until I tried to run a music CD I had bought. It had started to give me trouble opening and closing sometimes when I pressed the button but it worked.
I decided to take the cdrw out of another computer I have and try that. I put in the new cdrw, went into device manager, deleted what was in there and restarted to reinstall the unit and drivers. When I check for driver updates it says the current drivers are up to date.
Still no D: showing up in My Computer.
Searching the forums today I noticed the CD GONE advice to another poster and tried that. Now the D: drive shows up in My Computer again (woot!) However, after inserting another CD in the drive, I get a little whirring, some blinking light, but still nothing.
Clicking on the D: drive in my computer only says "Please insert a disk in Drive D:" .
Any ideas what could be wrong? This is my only disk drive and it's making me crazy.