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CD DRIVE?
I have a new computer. Everytime I put any kind of disc in the drive..It won't work! What do I do? I have tried to change the settings many times..But there are never pop ups to ask or anything. I have a Gateway and Windows Vista :] Thanks
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Go to "my computer". Insert the disk. Wait 3 minutes(actually wait that long). Double-click your CD-ROM drive; it'll probably be D:.
If it gives you an error("there is no disk in the drive"), or you're absolutely sure there is no CD-ROM drive in "my computer", your CD-ROM drive is broken.
If double-clicking it does nothing(nothing at all happens), Right click it and "open". If the next window has *nothing in it at all*, try it on another disk that you know works in other computers. If that works, the original disk is bad. If that doesn't show anything either, the CD-ROM drive is broken.
If you "open" it and there are files in it, your computer doesn't know how to handle the included files.
If you Double-Click and an explorer window full of files opens, your computer has been instructed not to autoplay. Follow the below instructions in to fix it.
And finally, if double-clicking it does make it work, you simply have autoplay disabled. In "my computer", right click the CD-ROM drive and select properties. Go to "autoplay" and make it "prompt me for action", in all catagories. If program disks also don't work:
-Go to start, then run. Type: regedit and press ok
-Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesCdrom and double-click "autorun"
-Change autorun's value to 1 and press ok.
-Restart the computer
Contact me if this doesn't work(not in the feedback or "additional info", though, I can't respond to that).
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