DVD failure

[Eutychus II]

After inserting a CD or DVD, the drive spins for a few seconds and then stops. When checking status of the device, windows says that it is working properly. Further, if the device is selected (clicked) in My Computer a screen message says there is not disc in player when there is a disc in the player.

[ale52]

Do you have another drive you can swap it out with?  Sounds like the drive has gone south. 

Alan <>< 

[pidu_rak]

this is might be because of some disk failure.. your DVD might have some scratches.. making it not readable.. so trying ur disk with another drive or ur friends...

[patio]

And to make sure it isn't the drive that has failed swap it into a known working machine...if it does the same thing it's time for a new one.