Satellite M40x-250 - CD/DVD drive works sporadically

My laptop CD/DVD driver has always worked properly but in recent months, that it is no more.

Most of the time that an error message telling me the CD or DVD cannot be read. Sometimes it does not work properly, and sometimes it doesn't work but very slow or stuttering. It is not bad that CDs or DVDs that I use because I used previously and it is also happened that one day a CD work and the next day it doesn't.

Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem? (I did use updates for the driver, or something)

Hello!

At the moment it is not easy to say why your CD/DVD drive doesn't work properly.
Maybe there is something of the dust on the lens of the CD/DVD drive. Then try to clean the lens using a microfibre cloth. This doesn t scratch lens for don t use other things.

In addition, I would recommend withdrawal of the reader of CD/DVD in Device Manager and restart the laptop. After this will be recognized once again and then you can test it again.

Good bye

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