Re: DVDs are not playing or recognized

OK, OK,

I get the message. I might be a little stubborn. :-)

I will order a new drive ASAP and let you know what happens.



Thanks John!


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"John Inzer" wrote:

I had an aggravating issue similar to yours
when my computer was still new...I tried
everything I could think of and sometimes
my Samsung DVD burner would work
sometimes it would not.

Finally, I took it to the dealer for warranty
service and they replaced the drive...bingo!
problem solved.

When you find a solution to your dilemma...
please share it with this newsgroup.

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Rob wrote:
Hello again,

Well, upon the advice of John (thank you!) I installed
Power DVD 7 trial version. I put in another DVD and the
Compaq DVD Rom drive acted the same way, but the Sony DVD
RW drive actually spun for over 2 minutes, so something
was going on with communication, in the end though I
received the same result. This time I tried playing “The
Last Samurai” and the DVD movie did not work, however on
a whim I decided to try the “special features” DVD. It
started right up the very first time. I got to the first
menu and then clicked on the special features went to
that menu and was able to choose and play any of the
special features that I clicked on. I restarted the
computer and tried again just to see what would happen.
The disk with the actual movie on it still would not play
but the interactual install program came up when I tried
the special features disk and I was asked if I wanted to
install the interactual program, I declined because the
DVD special features played without it.

I am pretty well convinced at this point that there is
some type of software or maybe a (root kit) stopping
those certain DVDs from playing otherwise why would I be
able to view the special features and not the movie.
Obviously the drives are able to play DVDs.

Anyone got any ideas about this???

Thanks again.




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