Topic: My laptop reads insert disc?

[Joeski]

Hello

    Over this past weekend my wife's laptop from her work which I hijacked to do some burning of DVD's and CD's started to give a message when I put a CD with music into it that reads something like this.  Please insert disc into drive.  I checked a few things and am now lost.  Does anyone know a way to tell if the drive just doesn't spin anymore or is broken or I somehow disconnected it?  I didn't drop it or even bump it.  I cant burn music CD's with Feurio, I can't play any music with it, I can't watch DVD's with it, nothing.  I have burned 100's and 100's of CD's and extracted plenty too with EAC but now it will do nothing.  Thanks for any help.
Joeski

[kcmoejoe]

hmmm...it could be dead, but you might try going here: http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/CD-DVD-DriveProblems.htm
look at #3 on the list of problems, you might try that one assuming you are running WinXP.