Re: DVDs are not playing or recognized

Thanks.

I should not have used the word random. The drives to not play randomly, it
is the disks that are playable that are random. The same disk will
consistantly play in the drive and the ones that do not work, never work.

Today, my older Compaq DVD ROM drive works again. I can play DVDs... so far
all the DVDs that I have tried work except one, and I think it might be the
disk.

The only thing that I did recently was to install and run a program call
CCleaner. It is freeware that cleans out history and alters and/or deletes
registry keys that the program deems as an error. If the drive continues to
work my belief will be confirmed that something somewhere on the computer was
stopping the drive from working.

I still have the original issue with the Sony DVD RW drive, although I can
burn DVDs which does not make sense to me. What is different with that drive
is that it seems to attempt to access information for about 2 minutes now
before it decides there is no disk. I have ordered new DVD drives but now I
strongly believe it is something in the OS and software that is the issue. I
wonder if the upgraded firmware could be the problem with the Sony drive. Is
there a way to clear that new firmware and install an older firmware?

Thanks again.

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"Wojo [MVP]" wrote:

If it helps I agree with John 100%
I too have had drives that seemed to be working sporadically so since it
worked "sometimes" I didn't think it was the drive but it was.
-Wojo

"Rob" <Rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BE2B4690-4B2B-4A7A-B37D-AD2679F5E29C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I know it may not solve the problem. Nothing else has worked so far... and
I
believe I have tried almost all things that are out there short of a new
drive so if it does not work then that will be eliminated from the
possibilities catagory. I will buy one where I can get a 30 day return and
may only loose shipping costs. At this point that would be such a small
price
to pay because I would not want to calculate my hours spent on this
problem
by my typical hourly rate... it would not be pretty. :-)

I appreciate your time.

I'll be back!

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"John Inzer" wrote:

Rob wrote:
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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It may not be the fix but I think it's
certainly worth a try.

Good luck...

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