u/DocSeuss

Any idea what might be preventing my drives from working?

So, I've been cleaning up my apartment. I unplugged both my drives, moved some stuff around, rearranged my computer area, and plugged them back in.

Now neither of them is acting like it wants to power on. Pressing the "eject" button is doing nothing. There's no lights, nothing.

One drive is an LG WH16NS60 and the other is a Pioneer BDR-X13U-S, both of which have been flashed and ripped hundreds of discs just fine.

I've plugged them into different outlets and computers in different rooms, but nothing. Pressing the button does absolutely nothing at all.

The weird thing is, in WINDOWS, I get the beep beep sound when I plug in the pioneer drive. I can even see "eject pioneer blu ray drive" in the windows 'safely remove hardware' button.

Prior to this, when the LG wasn't working, I checked the Pioneer, which plugged in, and I could read a disc in MakeMKV. I put a disc in to load, and then when I went to rip, I was able to select the language tracks like normal, but after I clicked the rip button, it told me there was no drive. And yeah, now I'm not getting any drive action at all.

Any ideas for troubleshooting?

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u/DocSeuss — 1 day ago