Lenovo IBM ThinkPad - No disk in drive?

[jmdraft]

I hope I’m in the right forum for Lenovo IBM ThinkPad Model#: 065746U
I have a disk in the drive but I always get “No disk in drive, please insert disk”. First, why do I always get this?
Second, I want to copy some pictures to the disk.
I see the word Burn above. Should I use this or is there some other problem?

[Saucey]

You'd have to burn the images to the disk, so yes you should see that.
See if you can use the CD/DVD as a USB drive when it burns it for you, so that you can burn more pictures at a later time.

As the no disk in drive, OH! I had that problem too, I had DVD-RW disks I wanted to burn information onto but it wouldnt of worked.
Turns out my DVD drive didn't burn disks, and it wouldn't read a blank disk. I had tried 4 of them thinking it wasn't working.

A CD-RW should do the trick.

[ajkula66]

I have a disk in the drive but I always get “No disk in drive, please insert disk”. First, why do I always get this?

Sounds to me like a bad media drive...try cleaning the lens with a q-tip dipped in alcohol...might help.

[jmdraft]

It doesn't like DVDs. A bit of a screwball process but CD worked OK. I found a bunch of control panel options and maybe the answer is in one of them. Is there a way to attach screen shots here?

[RealBlackStuff]

You can easily take out the CD-drive to see what it is.
It will say CD or DVD or DVD-CDRW or DVDRW-CDRW.
It even says what it is, printed on the front-panel of the drive.
What does yours say?

You can upload pictures to places like Google's Picasa, Photobucket, Flickr, Imgur, etc. and then post the links to them here.

[Saucey]

Hmmmm... Maybe it is only a CD-RW and not a DVD drive.

[ajkula66]

Hmmmm... Maybe it is only a CD-RW and not a DVD drive.

No.

R60e shipped with either a DVD RW or a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo. CD-RW by itself was not an option.

[Saucey]

CD-RW by itself was not an option.

Was it? Hmmm I should of looked up the detailed info of the machine before posting!

[ajkula66]

CD-RW by itself was not an option.

Was it? Hmmm I should of looked up the detailed info of the machine before posting!

A standalone CD-RW died with A31p/T30/R40 generation that sported UltraBay 2000 drives...once IBM went "slim" it was either a combo, standalone DVD or a DVD RW.

[jmdraft]

My computer displays the drive info. It says DVD/CD-RW Drive (D):
This is why I wanted to attach screenshots.
But this is not that important to me right now. My wife needed trip pictures to show a friend and I put them on a CD.

Curiously, it opens/plays DVDs, I just doesn't want to burn them. Maybe something to do with Saucey’s comment “it wouldn't read a blank disk.”.

Anyway, my wife has her pictures. I’ll worry about the DVD thing later if I need to do some sound/music.

Thanks all.

[RealBlackStuff]

DVD/CD-RW means:
- DVD reader only
- CD reader/writer
Your drive can NOT write DVDs.
But it can burn pictures/sound onto a CD... (doesn't have to be a DVD if ~750MB or less data)

[jmdraft]

Thanks Bill

[RealBlackStuff]

Thanks Bill