No Disc message

[Shocker]

When trying to open a disc through shrink I get that message,and also DVD isnt recognizing any discs! Not strictly a problem fo rthis board maybe,but can anyone help?

[UncasMS]

does shrik not recognize the media or does the whole system fail to do so?

[Shocker]

The whole system fails to do so.Ive ran troubleshooter and checked device manager all claim device is working properley.

[UncasMS]

try the following procedure:

1)
uninstall ALL ide controller from in your device manager
(dont worry, windows will reinstall them upon restart automatically)

2)
restart your pc and see if it helped


if not:

1)
uninstall ide controller again

2)
shutdown your pc + remove power cable from your power supply

3)
remove the ide + power cable from your dvd drive

4)
reconnect powersupply + start windows

5)
shutdown windows again without doing anything in windows

6)
reconnect ide + power cable to your dvd drive
(unplug powersupply before)

7)
restart window and see if anything has changed for the better


good luck

[Shocker]

Its a laptop so I can remove any cables other than power lead.i tried the first option you wrote and it made no difference.Back to the shop maybe?

[ElJester]

Are you sure it's a DVD player or burner and not just CD?

Does it recognize CDs?

[Shocker]

Are you sure it's a DVD player or burner and not just CD?

Does it recognize CDs?

Nope

[Shocker]

Apologies.It does read CD's..Im sure it wasnt doing.Anyway does this mean anything? I assume drive works,so why isnt it reading dvds,Goddamn it!!

Solved! Seem to be a shrink conflict.Re-installed ans all works.Thanks for suggestions.

[Shocker]

Spoke too soon it seems.Ok here is all info.Have reinstalled IDE drivers,uninstalled all copying progs.Reads CDs and data discs when I double click drive into allows me to drag files to burn to a CD! It is a dual burner.Was having problems also with burnt dvds not playing on any device.Copied using Nero Xpress and Clone same problem."No disc"
So I have two problems which doesnt seem to be put right as last time.Maybe that was a fluke?
Im guessing its not recognizing the dvd rw just cd!

[jm1647]

A lot of combo burners have a seperate laser for the CD and DVD. Could be the DVD one is shot.

Try and make a Test DVD in Nero at a slow burn speed and see what happens. Also can you post your Nero Log. Or do you just get the No Disc message all the time.

[Shocker]

Hi jm1647 I get the no disc message all the time! The system does not read any dvds.