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CD drive decides when it wants to work

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Menalaus

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Ever since I bought the Spore Creature Creator off of EA's download manager, my CD drive has been acting up. After two weeks of battling with EA support staff, and essentially being threatened to have my account banned, I decided that I'd never purchase an EA game ever again, as SecuROM has been known to cause loads of computer troubles for people. So I followed directions to remove SecuROM off my computer and I reclaimed most of my drive. There is still a big problem but it seems to be completely random.

When ever I put in some CDs into the drive, the CD drive will either read them or it will pretend nothing is in the drive. This has never been a real problem, other than when I tried to reinstall Crysis, but I chalked that up to the fact that EA distributed the game, so I haven't had the itch to play the game ever again as well, but I recently bought a game by THQ called Supreme Commander. I put the CD in the drive and, lo and behold, my CD drive pretends nothing is in the drive (I try to search the CD drive and it asks me to insert a CD into the drive...).

On top of that, I also get a Windows message that pops up every time I boot up my computer, telling me that Windows has disabled recording software (the recording software that Windows comes built in with) because "it may cause Windows to become unstable" (this also happened when I installed the game that was infested with SecuROM). I'm tired of this happening. Please help me out in trying to regain control of my CD drive.
 
Well, that certainly solved my problem about the message that pops up every time I reboot, so my thanks to that, but my CD drive still likes to pretend that when I insert some CDs into the drive they're still not there.
 
Seams to me that the CD rom problems happening after the spore download is just a coincidence. The drive itself may have some hardware issue. I think its time to replace the drive.
 
Originally posted by: lenjack
Your basic cd burner is as cheap as $17 at Newgg.
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Yeah, nowadays I don't spend a lot of time diagnosing and repairing CD and DVD drives. I toss them in the garbage and put in a new one. Heaven only knows how many I've tossed over the last fifteen years.
 
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