cdrom drive not reading discs?

[dgr]

hi

i have an OLD lg cdrom drive that is recognised under the bios, windows, slackware, gentoo, knoppix, etc.

only problem is it won't read and discs - whatsoever!

any ideas?

ta

dgr

[Skeps]

Maybe its buggered The laser is probably knackered, and the price u can buy em for now id just get a new one for around 20 quid. ( Does the disc spin up when u put it in?)

[Donny John]

This exact same thing happened to me on a CD-ROM I bought from PC World Couple of months old, they tested and changed it for me, no probs (was glad I didn't buy it online that time)

[dgr]

thanks for the replies.

its in my pc but i've never had a need to use it - just wondered if it was fixable (for the instance that it was required...)

dgr