HP CD writer will not work

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the answer is no; only what is now known as pata or was then just called IDE. Regards, nicam49

Go into My Computer and right click your DVD writer/CD Drive and click eject.

More or less in the centre of the draw front of both drives you should see a small hole.

Get hold of a paper clip and straighten it out, or use something similar, and press it into said hole. It should release the drive draw.

Try booting from the disc drive with a windows CD. If it does work, then try uninstalling from devices in windows, then scan for hardware changes and re-install. If its still not working I suggest doing a backup of your files and re-install windows, a corrupted registry may also cause this. If trying to boot from CD does not work you will need to replace the DVD drive

Yes. That is sufficient wattage.

Depending on what HP computer/cd-writer it is the type of disc you are using may not be supported.
Older cd-writers often had a specific type they could write to, CD -r / CD +r.

You should try to find out what kind of discs are supported by your cd-writer. This CAN be located in text on the front of the cd-writer.

yours is a dvd reader and writer.....(i.e)it can read both cd and dvd and write both......now due to some problems dvd reader has been failed.....now you have to give that repair.....mostly it can be repairable......otherwisw if you warranty you give that and take new one from where you have buyed it......otherwise you have to buy a new one.....no other solution for this.... i am software engineer...and i have experience.....try this.....it will work 100%.....

The optical drive itself is faulty. If the computer is under warranty, contact HP to have a tech come out and replace it. As an HP warranty tech, I see this quite a bit.


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Right click on My Computer
Select Manage
Select Device Manager
Click on Action and then Scan for hardware changes

That should look for your dvd/cd drive and install the right drivers. After it's done, restart you PC and your drive should be back.