From your description, I would give consideration to a bad drive. 
However, if you are continually trying to use the same disc, I would 
also consider a bad disc.

The drive could just need to be cleaned, but it sounds worse than that, 
again, from your description.

Tom Mayer

LKucera wrote:
> Yesterday my CD/DVD drive no longer reads the disc in the player. I was erasing some CD-RW cds and everything was working just fine, I put in the next cd and the message comes up with please insert a disc. I tried scanning the disc, ran the defrag, even did a system restore to Saturday, tried troubleshooting and it keeps coming up that everything is working fine. When I put a disc in the drive it blinks a bit and sounds like its trying to spin the disc then just stops.
>
> Dell Inspiron 8600
> Intel Pentium M
> 1.60GHz Processor
> 512 MB of RAM
> Windows XP Home
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Lynn
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