I have a Dell Inspiron laptop that has an internal dvd rw drive it has
worked just fine up until recently it will not load the driver for this
device. I have uninstalled the device, tried to update the driver ( the
driver is current) yet nothing seems to work. The system recognizes the
drive. Any suggestions?

Make sure the drive is securely inserted in its compartment in the laptop.
I have a 3-4 year old Inspiron which, when it was new and I lugged it around
with me, would occasionally require that the hard drive be reseated.
If you have not done so the best way to reinstall the driver is to delete it
then reboot.
If the drive is properly installed and the OS driver will not install the
driver then the DVD drive is probably kaput.
These are user replaceable items.

Please answer the following questions :-

What device driver would it not load ?

Is the drive able to read cd's / dvd's

Check device manager for any ! or ?


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Tanuj

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