My Liteon DVD recorder has stopped working - when I insert any disc, it does not register its presence claiming there is no disc. I have tried cleaning the lens with no result. Can anyone help?

Matt, December 2005

Mine went the same - I stripped out the original drive and tried the one out of my pc (philips) - worked fine (and beter) - I have orderd a cheap pc drive (another liteon for compatability I hope) - I wil make it fit the best I can

Patrick Warner, February 2008

Once the DVD laser assembly is faulty there is generally no other solution than to replace the laser assembly, about 90% of all dvd recorder faults relate to a faulty dvd drive. As LiteOn uses a standard ide drive (similar to a PC drive) then replacing it as Guy Pender did seems to be the only economic method. I would be interested to know which LiteOn model Guy has and which model ide drive he replaced it with?

Dick, January 2007

I have had a similar problem with my Liteon DVD recorder and have simply replaced the ide dvd recorder inside with a brand new one for about 25 quid. It now works beatifully.

Guy Pender, January 2006