DVD Drive Problem...

edited November 2004 in Hardware
Recently my DVD drive has been making a grinding noise whenever I place a DVD in it. But when i put a CD in it works perfectly fine. It doesnt make any sense at all. Does anyone have any ideas on why its doing this?

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  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Mine too.... Mine's a HP 200i
  • edited November 2004
    Since a CD and DVD are read differently, the drive must act in a different fashion (i.e. focusing the laser and positioning the lens on the track.) It sounds like the gears used for the DVD function are gone. Time to buy a new one :( . But hey, all the better reason to get a new DVD-R!
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