My CDROM has stopped working. Explorer can see the drive but when I put a disc in, it clicks relatively slowly four or five times and then gives up reading the disc
I did have a problem with Easy CD Creator a month or so ago when I had to uninstall the program and it deleted the CD keys from the registry so the whole computer coulndt see any CD drives. Someone with access to the MS knowledge base pointed me to a Microsoft patch which indirectly put the XP CD keys back in the registry so I SUSPECT this is nothing to do with that problem unless anyone knows otherwise (other CD reader/writers arent working at optimum either and none will write at the moment and the internal CD writing function of XP has NEVER worked since, - which might be a problem with SP2?) but this clicking seems to be a symptom of the internal CD ROM drive on my Sony PCG-F590 computer:
Are these symptoms of a dead drive? non-focussing laser? or merely a laser needing cleaning. Are there any serviceable/cleanable parts on a Sony Vaio internal CD drive?