my cd drive on my laptop works fine and reads copied cd's yet i have a cd that has been supplied to me with some photographs on yet when i insert the cd its not able to read it and just keeps saying

''please insert a cd into drive''

i have tried this cd on my dvd player and can view the pictures so i know that there is nothing wrong with the cd itself

can anyone suggest anything, as i really need these pictures badly

thanks gaz

 

Do other CD's work in your computer? i.e. Music CD, or other CD's such as applications etc.

Is the disc you have been supplied definitely a CD and not a DVD? As in you are 100% categorically certain that it is a CD not DVD.

As it would stand to reason your CD drive not recognising the disk if the disk was in fact a DVD.

 

well the drive on my laptop is a blu ray player and re-writer.. i can open microcat on it and also play dvd's so i know there is nothing wrong with the drive... erm i know this sounds a daft question but is there anyway i can tell????? the person who i got assures me that this cd will work on my laptop and reckons there is something wrong with it !!!

 

stop using old hat cd's and get a memory stick !!!

i bet you still text with your thumbs too

 

stop taking the piss and start helping

 

I'd say the CD didn't write properly, or it was formatted in a way your PC can't decode.

 

VLC player JOB DONE

http://downloadfreeprograms.net/download-vlc-player/

 

Is it possible the CD was not finalized?

 

well ive spoke to the bloke that i got the cd from, he assures me its all fine as he has sent 3 others out this week and has had no problems with them?????? i really am stumped with this??

 

I reckon the disc is damaged. Have you tried it in another computer? If it works in another machine try reburning them to another disc or use a memory stick

 

There's no reason for it not to play. Put it in a friends PC and see if it can be read, if so copy the data off it onto a memory stick. If it can't be read, or the data copied, it's fucked.