"D" Drive acting up

[putput]

A friend sent me a DVD of music which I was successfully downloading. Went away from it for a while and when I came back to it found that my "D Drive" didn't want to recognise it. It will read any CD I put into it. If I go to My Computer and call up D drive I don't get the "Insert a blank Disc " message as I do for A and E drives.
The DVD downloads OK using the E drive but I'm confused as to why the D drive gave up on the job. Am I looking at a hardware or software problem?

[The Radio Geek]

Hi there putput

Interesting!  Righto, to start I will need a little more information... (and no, I won't go running to the record companies!)

1) Was the DVD recorded by your friend, or an original DVD ?
2) What do you mean by "downloading" - is that copying from the DVD to your computer?

Cheers,
RG

[Mick_L]

Oorrrr.....


.... Could D: drive be a partition on your harddrive with the DVD drive being actually the E: drive?

[putput]

  For RG
The DVD was recorded by my friend in MP3 format and yes I did mean copying when I said downloading. It did work OK thru several copying sessions and then it quit but still copies OK thru an external E drive.
For Mick L . I'm not computer savvy enough to follow the partition theory.

[Mick_L]

Hi Putput,

My theory here is that your D: drive is actually a part of your harddrive. When your computer was put together, your hard drive  may have been formatted into two logical drives, C: and D: . This is quite often done so that you have a data area, and a small back up area. If this is indeed the case, your CD/DVD drive then takes the next available drive letter, therefore E:

I am assuming here, but to my way of thinking, you have inserted the DVD with the music on it, and a window has popped up with the files on it. From here you have began copying the files to the hard disk. Perhaps you closed the window after copying. When you wanted to do some more copying, you have gone to 'my computer' and clicked on D: drive, expecting this to be your DVD. Of course when this opened, there was no music to be found. But I suspect, if you click the E: drive, it might be there. But as I said that is assumption, and hard to tell without actually seeing what you are up to.

Something you can try in any case is to restart you computer, and once it is running and settled down, insert the music disk. Hopefully, a browsing window will open from which you can start copying the files again.