My CD-ROM Drive Died
 

Im not sure whats wrong with it but it stopped working i was listing to music and all the sudden the disc sounded like it jumped and the drive made a loud scratching noise and the drive stopped working any suggestions to what happened? it still hasn't worked for the past week cuss:

Uhhm... not sure, but i think it was overheathed cry:

did you get the CD out?

Ah so sad... The same thing has happened to me before with an old disc. This is a problem i hear about a lot. More often though, you hear a loud pop, then when you get your cd out, it has a perfectly straight radius cut effectively destoying the cd.

Among the list of fallen cd's from people i know are Soundblaster Drivers, Unreal Tournament, and Need for Speed.

I know this happens with one particualr drive though i only rfemeber what it looks like not the name of it. Move on and buy another drive, it's the only thing you can do.

I heard it happens often in 52X cd drives. Iv never had any real problems with my 42X

CD drives are only 30 bucks. IF you need the cd, just get a hammer, the drive's toast anyway

ya, they are cheap and easy to install.. just get a new one

I remember, my floppy drive was fucked, and i needed the contents of the floppy, i used the hammer, and swung too hard andsmashed the disk

same thing happened to me but twice in a year. the computer was going through cd drives like water, i was so pissed. it just stopped reading all the cds. finally i got a cd-burner and its held up so far so good.

get a pioneer 16x dvd rom for $30 bucks or so. ive heard those are the best ones out there, and mine hasnt given me trouble at all for years. ive broken a total of 2 drives the exact same way. i keep my tower on the floor and have a swivel chair. i opened my plextor cdrw to take out a disk, but i turned around for some reason and my knee struck the tray and broke it off of its track.

just get a little pin shove it in the hole on your cd drive.

it should open!

yeah, that's what i was about to say stupid:
why the hell do you need to hammer the damn thing? just rip someone off and sell it to them

the drive opens thank god and the disc was fine too but it still does not work this is what AIDA32 said my cd-rom is

HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8320B Hitachi-LG CD-RW 32x/10x/40x

hitachi drives suck.

All i got to say is...... |OWNT|

BWahaha! I've done that twice. It didnt break it either time. I was like, uh oh. Its not supposed to come out at that angle.. grabbed the deck, twisted, popped, and it worked.

The drive motor recently went out on my cd drive, after only two years. cuss:

I work at a computer shop, so I got a new one free biggrin:

haha i took my PS2 off its track but was able to fix it

What Cd-ROM should i get??

I think LG makes decent drives, don't they?