Windows 10 not reading discs

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Recently upgraded to windows 10. It straight away seemed temperamental when reading discs, but giving it enough time to sort itself out it got there eventually. However now it wont read discs at all. Looking on t'web it seems this is a common issue, however none of the potential fixes have worked for me.

I have also tried copying the disc contents onto an external hard drive and running off there, but for the one disc I have tried that with so far it starts up the program and then immediately shuts itself down.

Any ideas?
 
are they movies DVD's? music? DATA? I have no problems on my laptop (W10 Pro) and desktop (W10 Pro N)
 
Software DVD's have been ging me the most grief. The drive spins for ages trying t read them and then gives up, if i right click the drive and try and open the disc a dialogue box pops up asking me to insert a disc.

Music CD's seems to be ok, although it takes a while for the drive to register that a dick is there, once it has it seems to work ok.
Not tried any movie DVD's, but I can give that a go this evening.

In all cases, while the drive is trying to read a disc when it is first inserted, the whole pc becomes unusable and any interaction can cause it to lock up and crash windows explorer.
 
Had it occasionally with software discs and my wife gets it on occasion with games,thats a desk top and lap top on 10,the Silky pix i got with my Panasonic took several attempts before it loaded.
 
could be coincidence and the drive is going bad.
will it read an audio cd and play it via media player?
 
Mr Bump said:
could be coincidence and the drive is going bad.
will it read an audio cd and play it via media player?
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I have swapped it out for another identical drive, both were known to be working in the last machine. I have the same issue with both.

It will read and play an audio CD ok, but it does still take a while to recognize the disc initially. After that it's fine.
 
Ok, gotten round to looking at this again. Can confirm that movie DVD's work fine as do audio CD's. Though both rather slow and now what I would expect of a modern machine.

Still, software discs wont read at all. In fact having taken tested a movie dvd, removed it and then replaced it with a software disc, the drive still displays it as being the move that I previously inserted. Double clicking that then causes the drive to spin up, then opens the tray and asks for a disc to be inserted. Very odd.
 
Can you check the data disc on another machine without W10?
 
I have done. Can't do anything tonight as I don't have my works laptop with me but when I first had this issue I used it to copy the disc contents to an external drive to see if I could get around it that way. So I can confirm the discs I am using are working on a windows 7 machine.
 
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