[Egbob]

I just got the computer a couple months ago and its been working great tell now. But for some reason now the drive won't read any disks anymore. No idea why, I want to see if there is a quick fix before I reformatting.

[Hybr!d]

Does the drive show up in your BIOS, device manager and My Computer?

[Egbob]

Yea, In My Computer It shows up as a DVD-RAM drive. Would that have anything to do with it?

[Hybr!d]

If it shows in My Computer it's installed.

You could try deleting it in device manager, reboot, then it will install itself again.

Failing that I would say it's faulty.

[Egbob]

No luck. I'll try reformatting. Maybe that will work. Any idea why it shows up as a DVD-RAM drive? I thought it was supposed to be a DVD-ROM drive.

[philthomas]

Out of interest, did you install Daemon Tools or any other Drive Mounting software, before this happened ?

[Egbob]

No.

[Egbob]

Also I forgot to mention, I can't even hear the drive spin the disk anymore. The drive still shows up on My Computer and in the BIOS but every time I put in a disk it is as if i didn't put in a disk in the first place. I'm thinking of getting a new dvd drive but I don't want to spend the money unless I know it is unfixable.

[MJM]

If the drive can read DVD-Ram, it tends to show up as DVD-Ram (basically a pointless floppy)
You could try booting from a disc, if that works... well, reformatting could fix the issue.
Did you mess up a firmware update? (like the PC crashed during, etc)

[Egbob]

Originally Posted by MJM

Did you mess up a firmware update? (like the PC crashed during, etc)

No, I don't understand it. I haven't done anything with this computer except play games and a little bit of internet stuff(no bittorrant or anything like that).