The disk drive does not read discs - problem solving

First possible solution. Check if programs such as Alcohol 120% or daemon Tools. To run some games, you sometimes need a program that creates a virtual disk. This virtual disk may conflict with your computer's disk drive, preventing the system from working properly. Another program that can also conflict with the computer is Nero disc burning software.

In order to find out whether these programs are to blame for this problem, you only need to remove them. To do this, go to the “Control Panel”, open “Programs and Features”, right-click on the desired program and click “Uninstall”. Next, go to “Device Manager”, find the virtual disks, and right-click “Delete”. Second possible solution. Sometimes the problem with the drive not reading discs may be due to the presence of dust. Over time, dust accumulates on the drive, which prevents the disc from being read. To solve this problem, you need to very carefully disassemble the drive and remove all dust from it.

If you need to clean the laptop drive, do-it-yourself cleaning is prohibited. Special cleaning discs have been created for them, with special brushes on the surface that will clean the drive without damaging it. When choosing such a disk, pay attention to the fact that the brushes are very soft, and that the disk comes with a special lubricant that will not damage the laser head.

Third possible solution. If the laser head in the disk drive is damaged, there is nothing you can do with your own hands. In this case, only a complete replacement of the drive will save you.

Fourth possible solution. If in your case the drive does not read some discs, then the problem may be due to the lack of information about the digital media in the computer database. This situation arises because every day new manufacturers of laser disks appear on the market, when working with which the disk drive cannot correctly adjust the spindle speed and beam strength. To solve this problem, you need to go to the website of the manufacturer of your drive, download the update for the desired model and reflash it. Fifth possible solution. The drive will not read a scratched disc. And there is a solution to this problem! To read damaged disks, there are special programs - Bad Copy or Unstoppable Copier. These programs, using different parameters, try to read the disk many times. If reading a fragment is still impossible, they skip it and continue their work further. Thanks to this method, you can restore almost any disk.