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Old thread. Anyone else find a permanent solution for this issue that appeared as soon as I installed Windows 10? Tried all the same fixes in this thread, including renaming the empty default value to DVD/CD-ROM and making sure upper/lower limits aren't there, reinstalling driver etc. No errors in device manager, drive displays correctly in my computer, but it will just spin up and not read any discs at all. Says "insert disc" even with discs in...
My problem was very similar to Composerchick's, inserted disc and windows explorer and any other programs stated the reader was empty.
I tried everything in the last 5 hours (windows troubleshooting, updating the drivers and the BIOS also the 2 registry key modifications). I kept searching through the web for solutions in various support forums like Microsoft, Toshiba, Sony, HP ..... all of them with the same answers
So I just carefully cleaned the lens with a square of toilet paper
it fkng worked