It will burn cds but it refuses to read cds.

Any clues? wtf mate.

FIX IT. FIX IT. FIX IT.

blame canada

With all their hockey hullabaloo
And that bitch Anne Murray too

Buy a new one.

I'm going to piggyback off LeAnn's complaint and inform the tech gurus here that my dvd rom drive glitches...as in during playback it stutters. Any idears?

mine is dvd, too. whoops.

either way, herro. any halp?

when you burn the disc are you only burning images from the hard drive, or are you actually able to create images from the cd/dvd drive and then burn? either way, frank is right, just buy a new one. 29 bucks(in general) will usually cover most drives these days.

bah. i just had to replace my sound card not too long ago. wtf is up with this shit going bad so quick.

Mines is on a laptop. I'm scared to mess with it.

Um, CD/DVD ROM drives on a laptop are cake.

Or maybe I just work on laptops more than the average bear.

quit using it as a cupholder!

Yeah I was tired of my cd roms going out because of that so I finally had one installed.

The possibilities are too many, and most would lead to faulty components within the drive which if you were intent on fixing, would cost you about the same to simply replace the whole drive.
The one possibility that may be cheaper is that the laser is dirty. Try picking up a CD cleaner kit for around $5. It's an audio CD with a small brush attached over a certain track. If that doesn't fix it, buy a new drive.

word up. thanks. my dad has one of those.

wait.. you can burn cds.. but you cant read them?

can you read any cds at all?

Like if you grab an store cd, with a silver finish it will not read it?

Can you read your burned cds in other computers devices?

Mine reads CDs and can burn CDs (although it takes a lot longer than normal...i.e. used to be about 4 mins on iTunes, now takes about 15 minutes). If I play a DVD it stutters. Maybe something with the RAM or virtual memory?

My drive doesn't pick up CDs to play or execute... but when I burn cds and play them in something else... they work.

So the burner's working but not the drive.

Save your pennies and buy a new one.

Pennies in piggy are now awaiting more pennies.

get a drive cleaner. sounds like its got dust in it.

Word^. I think I have one laying around here...makes sense between all the dog dander at home and dust from construction at work and whatnot.

Mine won't read the cd cleaner ordeal.. b/s!

odd cuz a few days ago it read a cd with pics on it.

definetly mechanical, time for a new drive

got a new one. unfortunately, it doesn't match up space wise correctly with my tower. it stays hidden in there a little bit...

BUT IT WORKS!

like omg.

btw: mine cost $64ish.