bad disc maybe. also eye gets dirty, try cleaning by blowing air where your disc loads. some eyes that read discs some how become unaligned and cause problems.
Not necessarily. You can have a CD/DVD reading drive that does not write.
Whenever your CD drive closes it queries by spinning and reading with the laser. It detects it by reading some of the data off of it.
Your drive is probably a CD-R(W)/DVD-ROM drive. These are not capable of writing DVDs, but only reading them.
Don't move the drive around when it is reading a disc.
if the CD or DVD cannot be read, chances are the file system on the media is not supported. Try using it on a different OS such as Windows to see if the file system is recognized. There may be structural damage on the media as well, which would prevent it from reading.
The disc may have scratches or dirt on it and the CD drive is having trouble reading it. That, or something may be wrong with your CD drive. Is it reading other discs? If not, that's your problem; get a new CD drive.
A normal CD drive is an input device. A CD-R or CD-RW drive would do both input and output.
Some older CD-ROM drives may have problems reading CD-RW discs. As long as the drive is capable of reading them, it doesn't matter what brand the writer or the CD-RW was.
The main functions of a CD-ROM drive involve reading data on a compact disk and writing data on the same. This drive also makes it possible to boot a computer from a cd with a bootable installation.
The main functions of a CD-ROM drive involve reading data on a compact disk and writing data on the same. This drive also makes it possible to boot a computer from a cd with a bootable installation.
First, check to see if the CD is in good working order. If it is, there may be a problem with the CD reader of your computer.
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.