MY CD-ROM Drive non responding

setheroph · 30 Mar 2009 at 13:13

hiya people, basically, it doesnt respond at all in my computer its showing as "HD DVD ROM DRIVE (N) and i know its not HD at all, when i put a disc in, i hear it a tiny bit, maybe spinning, not sure. if i click properties on it i have in hardware tab, Gameing raid 0 and XKLGR 7WPUO52 SCSI CD ROM DEVICE come up, which i think is the original device, cannot be sure on that.
I put in another CD-ROM from my older computer but still the same problem, plus i know that the ROM loads up disc's in BIOS because i tryed re-installing an earlyier OS (from vista to XP, as i do not have a vista cd) but it wouldnt allow me too, any help would be greatful, all i want to do is to be able to play my games again

thanks

Just to let you know, im not great when it comes to computers (learning as i go) so pls explain what to do if there are any remedys thx again

KingZeddy · 30 Mar 2009 at 21:48

you might want to try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461

setheroph · 31 Mar 2009 at 10:02

tryed it, still no luck, in device manager i only see one disc drive and that being raid0, there are no drives for my CD-ROM, its really got me confused, can anyone help?

Musty Pie · 31 Mar 2009 at 10:08

try booting off a bootable CD. this will soon determine if its hardware or software at fault

setheroph · 31 Mar 2009 at 21:55

ok, it boots of a bootable cd, used XP Recovery disc to test and all works fine, the drive im using is the AD-517OA, checking to see if theres any problems now with this device on google but so far it seems ok...