Recently my DVD drive was playing everything, today i put a dvd disk in, it says nothing comes up with no auto play or nothing loads at all. so i go to my computer and load from there, it dont load. It says please insert disk... Im like WTF so i put a cd disk in and the same exact thing happened. i tried about 7 different disks including cd and dvd disks and burned ones too. Nothing at all, So i go to google and check around for tuts on fixing this, it gives me this registry thing. Like delete lowerfilter and upperfilter in this folder. I do it, Still nothing happens, so i reinstalled my hardware... nothing happens. So i think the laser for the dvd driver burned out! Anyone else got a clue of what happened or how to fix it. Or is it dead! Thanks

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There could be several problems. First off, go to My Computer (windows) and see if it says Drive D:. Drive D is the standard CD drive. Also, do you have any other cd drives? Please post all of the drive letters you see. Also, if you own your copy of windows, or the software that came with your computer, you could try repairing windows. Of course this means you need a working cd drive first which could be a problem if the dvd drive is the only cd type drive you have. Also, some wires may have come loose inside your computer. I had a problem one time where my cd drive wouldnt read music cds, but it read others just fine. So I inserted my disk (on startup but it really doesn't matter) and selected repair windows. After it finished my drive worked normally. A virus may have done something with your drivers. You could try reinstalling your drivers, or getting antivirus software such as Norton and downloading Spybot (spyware,adware etc). I am pretty sure you have to buy norton, but spybot and many other spyware or adware deleters are free. You could also look for a free anti virus software if you don't already have something.

this happened to me a while ago with my cd drive. I would put a cd in and nothing would load and i noticed my cd drive was missing from My Computer and it converted to an image drive. I never found out what the problem was but it came back a few months later. So yours probally isnt broken just something interfering with it. Another thing could be have you installed any new programs becuase i heard that could do it sometimes.

I had the same problem.
I opened the drive and cleaned the laser lens.
Without any result, I think after a while the laser become useless.

The only thing you can do is replaceing the drive with a (newer and faster) model.
Or you can even replace it by a DVD writer or if you have a bit of time Blue laser drive.

When cleaning the LASER LENS, Please do not use Chemicals like Alcohol or Hydrogen Peroxide.

In some drives, it might work wonders, but in some drives, it can react with the chemical present in the lens to screw it up totally.

The best thing to use would be clean water and lint free cloth.

Don't use water in any electronic device,water is a very good conductive material.

-reply by henricksen

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