[stuegoodings]

My disk drive wont work.
I can see it in control panel but it says it has a problem.
I can see it in bios. As maurice told a previous bloke to do on same sort of problem.
I had a friend look and he said a file was missing so windows could not see it.
So i tryed booting from disc. but the boot just goes straight to hard disk.
It wont let me repair the pc form disc.

Any help. ps this is not my pc i cant install software to get my wireless connection working till i fix CD arrgh

Stu

[Maurice]

Can you explain a bit more please?

You say you can see the drive in control panel - do you mean that the system boots up ok? do you then go into Control Panel ->System -> Hardware and see the drive?

Is the drive in question a second drive?

Are the drives SATA or IDE?

So i tryed booting from disc. but the boot just goes straight to hard disk.

Can you explain what you mean that you tried booting from the disk and it goes straight to hard disk?

[Maurice]

I have just re-read your post and now realise you are talking about the CD/DVD drive.

Go into Control Panel -> System--> hardware and select the CD drive and uninstall it.

Reboot Windows and it should re-detect it. Windows has its own generic drivers for handling optical drives and doesn't need any extra files.

If the drive still does not appear to be working I would suggest that the drive has failed. The interface logic of the drive is working, hence it being seen in the BIOS. I suspect that the problem lies in the reading circuits. This is not uncommon and replacement DVD drives are cheap and easy to fit.