USB DVD drive not reading properly

[jim]

This is driving me absolutely crazy. I've tried running this drive on my desktop, works absolutely perfectly.

Attach it to my emachines nettop though, and no such luck. I can see discs, I can copy files from discs. But if I try to play an audio CD, it just makes a lot of seeking noise and does nothing. WMP, VLC and EAC ripping software all do nothing and just produce errors suggesting that the disc is inaccessible.

Yet I can see the disc right in front of me in My Computer. Any ideas?

I'm assuming it's a software conflict right now but I've got hardly anything installed at the moment, so I can't imagine it's going to help.

[Terbinator]

Assuming there is another USB port, try that one instead? (If you haven't already)

This does seem a really odd scenario, though. :|

[Pancake]

I could bet its Power related

[jim]

Assuming there is another USB port, try that one instead? (If you haven't already)

This does seem a really odd scenario, though. :|

Yeah I've tried all four, and then disabled the other three in device manager out of desperation.

I could bet its Power related

How do you mean? That the drive isn't capably powered by the USB ports on the nettop? Surely if that was the case I would be unable to read any disks, let alone pull files off them?