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These are actually drawer-like trays, into which a DVD or CD is laid and then the tray is closed. The PC above has two drives: a DVD reader at the top, and a combined DVD/CD reader/writer underneath. Step 1: First, you need to discover what sort of disc drive(s) you’ve got.

It can take a bit of detective work to figure out how to play a CD or DVD.įollow these step-by-step instructions on how to put a CD or DVD into your computer Many drives are reader-only, but writers are usually only available in combination with readers. writers (also known as recorders or burners) – these can copy data on to discs.readers – these only read from the discs.

You can also buy new computer programs on disc or put blank discs into your computer to do things like copying photos, documents or music.ĬDs and DVDs are played within optical disc drives that come as part of a computer. Very grateful for tips and tricks on this point.Īlthough the problem obviously not is related directly to the operating system I have the Windows Vista and the Windows XP installed in different partitions.Your computer can play music CDs and DVDs and, if it’s powerful enough, can show films and TV programmes on disc. Possibly, the Lite-On LTN486 48x Max ATA Device firmware needs to be reset. Obviously, there should be a setting in the BIOS which causes this undesired behavior. Not even cold restart resets the CD reader to normal state. I cannot reboot computer from CD for now. However, after performing this action I cannot read normal CD disks anymore, the computer doesn't accept normal 12 cm CD disks but still working with 8 cm mini CD disks. The reader has been working fine for several years, recently I put an 8 cm mini CD in it and could read its content fine. I need to reset the CD reader to its original state. I am running on a Dell Precision 330 workstation, delivered some years ago with original CD-ROM reader, Lite-On LTN486 48x Max ATA Device. I have a similar problem, indeed the opposited problem.

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