The DVD CD Drive on my home computer has become very slow to reconise a disk.

Now when I put a disk in to view anything it is taking forever to open it ?

Everything els on my computer is fine, only this very slow to reconise disk problem.

Is there a way to speed things up to what they were before ?

Ive just timed it, from the moment I put a disk in the drive to the moment it asks me how I want to open it is 18 seconds, then from clicking open to view folder it takes another 9 seconds to respond, might not sound long but I would say it was about 3 seconds before to reconise and another 3 to open.

The DVD CD Drive on my home computer has become very slow to reconise a disk.

Now when I put a disk in to view anything it is taking forever to open it ?

Everything els on my computer is fine, only this very slow to reconise disk problem.

Is there a way to speed things up to what they were before ?

It could be because of a recently installed program and/or update for instance. If you can identify it, try to uninstall it. Otherwise, I would try to clean the registry, for instance with CCleaner (which is free) and see if things improve.

Is this happening when you put in any pre-recorded disk (CD or DVD) or just blank disks?

Possible bad batch of blanks?

If you have ruled that out - replacement drives are not too expensive.

If you've ever used a so named "Cleaning" CD/DVD may the problem came from that! That "Cleaning" CD/DVD's having a kind brush which will physically clean the Lens of the drive and in case the lens is from plastic (the most are) the lens get damaged while the brush is "leaving" some stripes on that lens surface.

It's also possible that the lens was getting a kind "film" from air moisture or so.

Cheers.

I do use CC so my registry should be ok, the problem is with all disks not just blanks so maybe as was said it is a dirty lense, I will try to clean it without scratching it