Disc Drive Problem

aloof_guy SG

I recently bought quake wars enemy territory and medevial total wars: Kingdoms.. weird thing is that my com couldnt detect those games in the drives..

when i tried them using my friend's acer laptop, it detected it immediately..

ok so i guess disc drive failure right... but it can detect Medevial Total War.. (not kingdoms.. its the one b4 kingdoms) and stuff like warcraft 3...

Its a DVD-readable drive.. TDK to be exact..

Reason why im asking is because im thinking whether i should be a new drive or is it the cpu's problem? format?

aloof_guy SG

anybody? sobsob lol.

MyPillowTalks SG

disc drive i tink, change a drive and see, maybe the laser thingy spoil?

wonderamazement SG

As in got no autorun?

ndmmxiaomayi SG

How about double clicking on them?

When there are lots of programs in a disc, the manufacturers always will choose one of them to run automatically. The rest will not run automatically no matter what.

aloof_guy SG

as in it cant even detect the disk.. i dont even see it's name on my computer..

i dont think its the disk problem as it works perfectly on my laptop..

on the other hand, i dont think its the drive's problem as i can read my other game. argh

BrUtUs SG

ur dvdr drive gng end soon…

wonderamazement SG

Change lor… Quite cheap what.

aloof_guy SG

I can change np.. but i want to know if its the dvd drive fault.. cause i can still detect some of my DVDs.. its just these 2 which i cant.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

If it’s just these 2, do they have scratches?

aloof_guy SG

very few.. i can read them perfectly using my laptop.

korusu SG

Sometimes older drives have problems reading some newer media. Try finding new firmware for the drive, failing that, get a new one. They are cheap as dirt nowadays.