Optical Drive malfuntions!!! Help!!!

So i have a typical LiteOn IDE drive, CR/RW, DVD, CDROM player. Recently when i put in a disk or game to install or listen to music, it simply doesnt do anything. it boots up the disk about 10% of the time, but it is sketchy. ive tried with autorun on and off, it still barely works, and everything is hooked up right. i go to my computer and it recognizes that there is a drive, but even when a disk is inserted it says it is empty. is thisan optical drive failure? help!

So i have a typical LiteOn IDE drive, CR/RW, DVD, CDROM player. Recently when i put in a disk or game to install or listen to music, it simply doesnt do anything. it boots up the disk about 10% of the time, but it is sketchy. ive tried with autorun on and off, it still barely works, and everything is hooked up right. i go to my computer and it recognizes that there is a drive, but even when a disk is inserted it says it is empty. is thisan optical drive failure? help!

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