Optical drive not reading/writing/recognizing a disc

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Hello,

This has been going on for quite some time now where my LG BH16NS40 Optical Drive does not recognize any disc I insert into it. Normally autoplay will pop up when a disc is inserted, this does not happen. When a disc is inserted I also cannot see that there is a disc inserted by looking at my computer, it shows nothing as if nothing is inserted. Under device manager I can see that the optical drive is recognized by the computer and I have made sure I have the latest firmware installed but still no luck. It's super frustrating since it prevents me from basically using my optical drive in any way. Any advice would be very appreciated!

I should also note that I have tried uninstalling the optical drive from device manager and restarting, didn't fix it. :-(
 
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panathas
Back when optical drives were more expensive and more popular, they had much better build quality than today. But even then they could easily fail under heavy usage. Usually 2 years of heavy use were enough to break the laser inside the optical drive. Now days optical drives don't last very long and since they are very cheap they are designed that way. It's the laser diode part that is the most sensitive one and fails quite easily. Although it surely depends on the usage of the optical drive, I have seen devices fail under a year even though they were rarely used. Likely they are very cheap and you can easily get a new one. It doesn't worth the time and effort you put in troubleshooting.
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I've checked both connections, they are both good. The drive is probably only a couple years old, hard for me to believe it would be dead already
 
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Back when optical drives were more expensive and more popular, they had much better build quality than today. But even then they could easily fail under heavy usage. Usually 2 years of heavy use were enough to break the laser inside the optical drive. Now days optical drives don't last very long and since they are very cheap they are designed that way. It's the laser diode part that is the most sensitive one and fails quite easily. Although it surely depends on the usage of the optical drive, I have seen devices fail under a year even though they were rarely used. Likely they are very cheap and you can easily get a new one. It doesn't worth the time and effort you put in troubleshooting.
 
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