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I put a CD in the d-drive and the window pops up that tells you that there is no CD in the drive. This happens to all the CD's I have placed in there. When I place the windows XP installion CD in the slot it recognize's it. What could be the problem? It used to work.

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If the drive accepts factory-pressed discs but not discs you burned yourself, the cause is usually how the discs were written or how Windows is enumerating sessions — not a totally dead drive. , pointed in the right direction; below are practical checks that go beyond "it used to work" and give step-by-step ways to isolate and fix the issue.

First checks (quick and cheap)

  • Try one of the burned discs in a different PC or an external USB optical drive to confirm whether the disc itself is readable.
  • Inspect discs for hairline scratches or a cloudy underside. A lens-cleaning disc or a gentle wipe can help.
  • Note the media type: CD-R, CD-RW and DVD media behave differently and some older drives struggle with certain dye types and rewritable formats.

Windows and driver-level checks

  • Open Device Manager, uninstall the CD/DVD drive entry and reboot so Windows redetects it. Check for yellow warnings or unknown devices.
  • Some third-party packet-writing or "drag-to-disc" drivers (InCD, DirectCD, certain Roxio components) alter how a session appears and can make a disc look empty on systems without the driver. Uninstall any such software and retest.
  • If comfortable editing the registry, back it up and check HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} for UpperFilters/LowerFilters entries that reference burning software; remove those values only if you know what they are and then reboot.

Burning and firmware

  • Create a standard ISO9660 (or ISO9660+Joliet/UDF) data session with a dedicated burning program and burn at a slower speed for better compatibility. Avoid proprietary packet-writing formats when you need maximum read-compatibility.
  • Check the drive manufacturer for a firmware update; firmware can fix compatibility with modern media.

If discs read fine in another machine but not on this PC after the above steps, consider replacing the drive — optical drives are inexpensive and the simplest long-term fix.

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I put a CD in the d-drive and the window pops up that tells you that there is no CD in the drive. This happens to all the CD's I have placed in there. When I place the windows XP installion CD in the slot it recognize's it. What could be the problem? It used to work.

thats to weird ,are they original cd or burnt cd

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thats to weird ,are they original cd or burnt cd

The xp cd is original but the others all files that were copied onto the cds.

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Ok Caperjack, I tried another original CD and it works. So it's the cds that I copied files onto. Is there sometime I can do to have the PC recognize the copied ones?

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Ok Caperjack, I tried another original CD and it works. So it's the cds that I copied files onto. Is there sometime I can do to have the PC recognize the copied ones?

is the cdrom an old drive as some old drives will not read burnt cd,
make sure you finalize the cd when burning them,in your burning software look for a check box to finilize cd it comes just before you click ok to burn [so nothing else can be written to them ] it closes the cd so drives can read the files ,i use nero ,i use multi-session [when i use multi i can read file without closing the disk] to add files to cd and when i see it getting full i check to finalize to close cd.

What burning software did you use ,and did you burn them on the computer you are trying to view them on .??

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