My computer doesn't recognize any discs in the disc drive?

Question

Whenever I put a disc into the disc drive on my computer it doesn't recognize it! I've tried practically every disc I own, and none of them work. When I put in the sims CD it says "please insert the sims 2 disc and click OK to retry", but the disc is already inserted. When I put a music CD in and open itunes, it doesn't recognize that I've inserted one and doesn't ask to upload it like it always does.

I recently deleted a lot of programs off of my computer and did a disc defragment because my computer was getting really slow, but I'm PRETTY sure I didn't delete anything as vitally important as this! Any ideas what's wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks!

Answer 1

Sorry this is not an answer but it is so weird that I tried the same thing on my computer 2 days ago (with Sims 2) how ironic and my computer does the same thing. To the person who said reload the drivers... how do you do that? I want dsl too but my drive needs to recognize the disk att&t will give me to load into my computer. My computer is 3 years old. I wonder if we should just get new disk drives put in. If we do, does anyone know how much that would cost? Sorry I wasn't any help on answers... just more questions.

Answer 2

Did you try cleaning up the optical drive? Maybe it's simply at the end of the line...

Answer 3

Disk manifac.?

try downloading the drivers again!