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Audio CDs Not Recognised - DVDs work fine.

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#1 ·
I can't get my head around this one.

I've not played an audio CD in a while, but I put one in today and it simply didn't work. The PC failed to recognise the CD was in the drive.

I thought it might be the CD and so tried another CD, and another, and one more for good measure - none worked.

I tried a DVD to see if it was the drive, the DVD worked fine. I tried a software CD, that was fine as well.

The drive is slightly old, from my previous PC which I upgraded in December/January. I've not tried a CD since and I'm wondering if the issue has been there all along.

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
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As Jack said, burned CD's may not read any longer, especially if they were not burned at the slowest speed. You can try to download the Firmware update from the Drives Manufacturers support/Download Drives site, which would allow the drive to accept different brands of media. But the laser may be starting to fail. Good news is that CD/DVD drives are cheap.
 
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