My c drive is not reading disks - Compaq Computers & Internet

Try the DVD-disk in some other computer, to see if the disk is the problem in _more_ than one computer.

Try some other DVD-disk in your computer, to see if your Sony drive can read _any_ DVD disks, i.e., if _NO_ disks can be read, then it's time to replace the drive.

See if your disk will read in another system. If it will, we know the disk isn't the issue.
Try reading a different disk in your system. If your system will read a different CD, we know the drive isn't defective.
If neither the CD nor the drive is defective, then this very well could be because the infection itself is causing the issue.
Try booting in safe mode (press F8 repeatedly as the operating system first starts to boot and choose safe mode) and see if the disk will read then.

If the disk still won't read, check for contaminants on the CD and the drive lens.

If the disk is unreadable this means that the format or the files extensions on it are not readable in the operation system you use..either are damaged or the disk itself is damaged or it wasn't finalized like it should ...If other disks inserted run ok than the disk it is damaged and it is nothing wrong with the drive itself..When it says to insert a disk this means that it is not seeing the disk at all and it sounds like a drive problem ..but if other disks are ok ..than it is just a damaged disk or in a format unreadable ..beware if it a cd unit ..will not read dvd-es..or if it a dvd kind will not read large dvd-es (dual layer) or blue-ray disks..

your cd drive reads disk, it probably is bad

u should look up hard drives on wikiapedia

The drive has NOT been able to read the directory of the disk you put in.

Possible causes:

Disk may be a DVD which your drive may not be able to read.
Disk may be a DL DVD (double layer) whcih your drive may not be able to read.
The disk might be a BluRay which your drive may not be able to read.
Your drive may be defective or have a dirty read head.

check your drive spesc - it can't not compatible with some disks, there are many formats: DVD-R, DRD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
some disk recoder applications can leave open sessions and it makes disk readable only on the same drive where it was burnt

If the driver didnt fix your problem, your disk drive might be faulty , maybe the problem is on the disk drives lens this is very common problem 2 any other cd/dvd rom drives.

try to use some Hard drive recovery programes or try Paragon partition manager.

my suggation is first clean lense of your drive with cleanup disk.
cleanup disk cleans lens of drive and makes drive clean with higher speed to read data on the disk
and the second guess is if your lense is not working the drive is not able to read or write any thing to the disk.

feel free to ask me question.
chirag

some floppy can read and some floppy cant read
it means that ur floppy drive reads the information which they originally save it from citizen floppy drives. Floppy drives like citizen if u use in any place u can use the citizen floppy drive any where