please help dvd drive saying no disc in drive

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did you try to uninstall the drive in device manager & restart the laptop so that windows can find new hardware & load it's own driver? do you have or can borrow a windows disk to see if your laptop will boot from that disk or just continue loading into your windows as that will tell if the drive is dead or not?

minrd1975

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disc is blank. I was going to backup some pictures on my laptop by putting them on a dvd recordable disc. but I try to do that and dialog box pops up saying there is no disc in drive when there is
 

minrd1975

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Mar 3, 2017
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I done a troubleshooting from the control panel, and it said that NO dvd playback device was detected!! and I looked at device manager and it says its installed, and there is no exclamation mark there, also I did another trouble shooting and it said windows update was set to not install drivers. how do I fix this??
 

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did you try to uninstall the drive in device manager & restart the laptop so that windows can find new hardware & load it's own driver? do you have or can borrow a windows disk to see if your laptop will boot from that disk or just continue loading into your windows as that will tell if the drive is dead or not?
 
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