HP ProBook 4540s CD/DVD Drive cannot Read Disks

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Published on 2014-08-17T21:30:48Z Indexed on 2014/08/18 22:24 UTC
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I seem to have a problem with the CD/DVD drive on my HP ProBook 4540s laptop. I cannot get it to read any disks. Normally, I would say that this is a hardware issue, but whenever I put a disk that previously could be read in the drive, it starts to make noise like it is trying to to read the disk but cannot and AnyDVD HD seems to be able to retrieve disk information with some struggle. Any ideas on what the problem could be?

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