Weird DVD problem...

[papernate]

I have a compaq laptop, and it has a toshiba DVD player. It plays DVD's fine, but when I play music it will not recognize the disks. I haven't been able to find anything on this, and would appreciate any help. Thank you.

 

[ski]

Are the music CD's commercial, or are they burned?

 

[papernate]

Neither commercial or burned (music, data, game, etc) CD's work. I just watched a few minutes of 2001 Space Odessey on DVD, and it worked great.

 

[ski]

Insert a music CD, right click on the DVD drive in Windows Explorer, and click Play.
Does the CD play?

If not, then right click on the DVD drive, and click Explore.
Can you see the music tracks?
If so, double click on one.
Does it play?

 

[papernate]

It doesn't recognize CD's. The drive will spin up and down repeatedly when I insert a CD in the drive.

 

[ajdesigns]

I have exactly the same problem with my dvd (also Toshiba) on an IBM laptop. If you cure this please let me know.
yours
AJD

 

[ski]

Press and hold down the Shift key while inserting the CD to prevent it from trying to autoplay.
Then, see if you can play the individual tracks by clicking on them in Explorer.

 

[papernate]

It doesn't detect that there is even a disk in the drive. I would try to play the tracks, but it is as if there is nothing in the drive. DVD's work great, but pop a CD in, and it's like the drive is empty.

 

[ski]

Start in Safe mode, remove all CD and DVD drives from Device Manager, restart the computer, let Windows recognize the drive and reinstall its drivers.

If no luck, then disable DMA in the Settings tab for the drive in Dev. Mgr.

If still no good, then the drive may be faulty.
You can either replace it, or keep it for playing DVD's, and install a CD-ROM drive for your CD's(They're inexpensive).