Bizarre DVD drive related problem.

[tsomerville93]

I'm experiencing an odd problem with reading discs on my old computer. I was trying to boot off of my Windows disc to reinstall the OS but the disc simply wasn't being recognised, despite the drive showing up fine in BIOS.

I naturally tested the disc with some other computers and they read it fine. I decided that the DVD drive was the culprit so I slipped in a brand new drive, but the disc still isn't being recognised. Soo I tried multiple boot discs and tried some miscellaneous DVDs while in Windows but nothing seems to be working.

Has anyone encountered a problem similar? Or perhaps has an inclination as to what's going down?

Cheers for any help!

Tom

 

[natr0n]

A bad sata/ide cable perhaps.

 

[Depth]

Try using a memory stick?

http://www.intowindows.com/bootable-usb/

Be careful with diskpart, you could format the wrong drive.

 

[tsomerville93]

A bad sata/ide cable perhaps.

Thanks for the swift replies. I've tested the drive with multiple cables, and from different ports on the motherboard so I don't reckon that's the problem, unless I've been immensely unfortunate.

Try using a memory stick?

http://www.intowindows.com/bootable-usb/

Be careful with diskpart, you could format the wrong drive.

Cheers, I'm currently in the process of making a usb boot drive actually just for the time being. I'd still like to get this problem fixed though.

 

[natr0n]

Try cleaning the disc perhaps maybe windex it.