DVD burner wont read any media anymore?????

[MEANGUNS]

I don't know what happened.

I burned a movie fine yesterday and it didnt hint anything was wrong with my dvd burner.
The next day a put in a dvd, cdr, and blank dvd and it wont read any media I put in it.
I went to nero to do a test burn , and the error window poped up saying "theres no media in drive" which there was.

My dvd model is HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4082B

Any ideas how to fix this?

[johns0]

Try the burner in another pc,if its still the same then its hooped,if it works then its a problem with your ide drivers,use ms ide drivers if thats the case.

[Ward River]

Remove it in device manager and reboot & let windows detect & reinstall the drivers then try it again before you go physically removing anything. It might just be a corrupted driver or something.

[jtoolman2000]

Have you tried to burn a CD? If it's like my situation a year ago, then I'll bet you can. That wouold mean that the DVD laser died. No warning seems to be given. In my case, I burned a DVD and about 15 minutes later tried another and BAM, no didk on the drive messages with every program I tried. Yet CDs would burn just fine. Solution??? A new burner.

[bobbauk]

Have you tried to burn a CD? If it's like my situation a year ago, then I'll bet you can. That wouold mean that the DVD laser died. No warning seems to be given. In my case, I burned a DVD and about 15 minutes later tried another and BAM, no didk on the drive messages with every program I tried. Yet CDs would burn just fine. Solution??? A new burner.

Hmm, Do you think that happened in my case too;

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=261807

I ripped and burned a CD last night but didnt think it used a different laser for DVD reading.

Since I posted that I've been messing around no end with drivers etc. I did mull over downloading firmware, but cant find any specifically for my drive, pluse I have a 2nd dvdrom drive so didnt want to mess that up.

Was going to try a registry mechanic as a last resort tonight, just in case some software was causing the prob.