CD Rom not recognised

**sallyp** · November 15th, 2005, 12:19 PM

Hey all.

Am a newbie to all this so please bear with me. Got a new game today, after clearing 2Gb of space on my hard drive so I could play the blasted thing I can't get it to work! I put the cd in and my driver makes a couple of whirring and clicking noises then sort of gives up! All my other cd-roms/dvds/cds are working fine. Apparently it could be that I have not completely cleared my system of Daemon Tool files which would stop the cdrom from working as it has some special copyright protection gimmick. Any help would be gratefully received as I wanna play my game....hopefully before I retire!!

Thanks all

Sally

**3fingersalute** · November 15th, 2005, 12:55 PM

Can you explore the cd? (right-click the cd drive, explore)

Has the disc been tried in another computer ?

**sallyp** · November 15th, 2005, 12:58 PM

No...and no, just got it today! When I try and explore it just says please insert disk into drive. Would the copyright protection thingy make the cd whirr? It is as if the drive is trying to read the cd, gets stuck then tries again.
I'm clueless!

Sally

**joker j** · November 15th, 2005, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by sallyp

Hey all.

Am a newbie to all this so please bear with me. Got a new game today, after clearing 2Gb of space on my hard drive so I could play the blasted thing I can't get it to work! I put the cd in and my driver makes a couple of whirring and clicking noises then sort of gives up! All my other cd-roms/dvds/cds are working fine. Apparently it could be that I have not completely cleared my system of Daemon Tool files which would stop the cdrom from working as it has some special copyright protection gimmick. Any help would be gratefully received as I wanna play my game....hopefully before I retire!!

Thanks all

Sally

EDIT: Nevermind it may just be defective.

**3fingersalute** · November 15th, 2005, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by sallyp

No...and no, just got it today! When I try and explore it just says please insert disk into drive. Would the copyright protection thingy make the cd whirr? It is as if the drive is trying to read the cd, gets stuck then tries again.
I'm clueless!

Sally

Try it in another drive, sounds like a bad cd to me.

**sallyp** · November 15th, 2005, 02:15 PM

Ok, I suppose with a DVD ROM it helps to have a DVD drive? Silly me! Ty to all who tried to help, was just me being a Doris!

Sally

**3fingersalute** · November 15th, 2005, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by sallyp

Ok, I suppose with a DVD ROM it helps to have a DVD drive? Silly me! Ty to all who tried to help, was just me being a Doris!

Sally

You know, I was going to ask that question, but you mentioned above that all your other cds/dvds were working fine, so I assumed you had tried other DVD's in this drive......sorry, my bad.