Cd rom wont read disc windows vista

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Trying to read the disk from explorer and the command prompt do not even cause the drive to spin up. The drive works to boot from. When I had Vista 32bit installed the drive worked just fine. Any ideas? Monday, February 2, PM. If, after cleaning the drive and CDs, you still get errors, it's likely the disc drive is bad. If listed with a yellow exclamation mark or red X, remove the CD-ROM by highlighting the drive and pressing the delete key. It's also possible that the drive is bad and needs to be replaced.

For additional information on Device Manager, see our Device Manager page. If you attempted the recommendations above, boot from the Windows disc to see if the computer can detect and boot from the disc.

If the computer can boot from the disc, you are encountering a Windows driver related issue.