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December 16th, 2007, 12:02 AM
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If the drive reads CDs but not DVDs, a good thing to try is a bootable DVD, such as more recent software installation disks like the Vista install disk, or a computer magazine cover disk that is a Linux Live DVD. If you have or are able to beg, borrow or buy such a disk, it removes any uncertainty about drivers from the scene.
In the computer's BIOS setup, temporarily make the optical drive the first boot device, and start up the computer with that disk in the drive. If it boots from the disk (eg with a Linux Live DVD, Linux starts up), then the drive is OK. If it doesn't read the DVD, and moves on to start up Windows from the hard drive as normal, then the drive is unable to read a DVD. Basically this points to either a laser failure or a dirty laser lens, so in this case if the laser is definitely clean, the drive would need replacement.
From your description there's a good chance this is the problem.
Last edited by Platypus; December 16th, 2007 at 12:04 AM.
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