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Optical drive visible in My Computer but cannot read discs

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I have a Gigabyte Motherboard (GA-MA78GM-S2H) with 2GB of RAM, and a Lite-On iHAS424 optical drive. I installed WHS with no problems, but now that it is up and running, I cannot use the optical drive. I can open My Computer and see the drive (X:), but when I double click it to access it, I get a "Please insert a disc into drive X:" error. Because it worked during install, I thought it may be a motherboard driver conflicting with WHS. Let me know what settings I can give you or any further details I can provide to help solve this issue. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
EricWednesday, February 10, 2010 5:24 AM
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What software after installing Windows Home Server have you installed.
Also just to check off the obvious - you do have CD or DVD in the drive and you have tried a number of different CD's and DVD's and they all come up with "Please insert a disc into drive X:" ?
You could also try going to Device manager, uninstall the Optical Drive, reboot and then reinstall the drive. However, it sounds like you drive may be dead - will it read the Install DVD you used to install Windows Home Server?
Cheers,
Al
--- Marked as answer by ERack Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:17 PM
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:47 AM
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What software after installing Windows Home Server have you installed.
Also just to check off the obvious - you do have CD or DVD in the drive and you have tried a number of different CD's and DVD's and they all come up with "Please insert a disc into drive X:" ?
You could also try going to Device manager, uninstall the Optical Drive, reboot and then reinstall the drive. However, it sounds like you drive may be dead - will it read the Install DVD you used to install Windows Home Server?
Cheers,
Al
--- Marked as answer by ERack Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:17 PM
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:47 AM -
Al,
I feel like a complete idiot. I was using the same disc to read. I tried another and it works. It must have been the bad day I had yesterday; I was definitely off my game. My fridge quit and my desktop ram went bad. Thanks for guiding me the right way!
Eric.Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:17 PM -
No worries - happens to us all - glad it's sorted now.
Cheers,
Al
--Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:28 PM