Reading enhanced cds

So i just got off a chat line with a Dell tech...and my current drive Optiarc AD-7640A has a hard time reading "enhanced cds"...it will read after approximately the 5th time of reinserting the disk

The drive was able to read everything else...DVDs, other music CDs and blank CDs as well...so we both came to the conclusion that it has something to do with the "enhanced cd"...has anyone had this problem and remedied it?

I had to look up what an "enhanced CD" is.

In short, enhanced CDs shouldn't have trouble being read by your CD drive. As far as I can tell with some quick searching, there's nothing physically different with "enhanced" discs, it's just that they include some stuff that runs on your computer on the end of the disc. As long as you have a CD drive from this millennium, it should read it just fine.

Do you have any other enhanced discs to try? What operating system are you running? Are there any firmware updates from Dell's website for your CD drive?

Yea the drive has the current firmware update and im using the latest drivers as well...its weird because the drive can read every other kind of cd just fine...but it has problems with "enhanced cds" after about the 5th try or so it will finally read it...another weird thing is that on my fiance's old computer it can read "enhanced cds" perfectly fine...i really can't put my finger on this one

I have no idea what the problem actually is but from what you have described it sounds like it could be more to do with your pc os/app not being able to manage the app side of dealing with the enhanced CD information, not the drive reading the disk or the driver being able to get the data off the disk.

Just though I would add that in, in case it sends some thoughts in the right direction.