sarahloggin

Some of you may have seen my previous posting but I now have a new problem with my DVD burner. Original problem was that while I was able to burn movies using both DVD+R and DVD+RW, for whatever reason I couldn’t do so using DVD+R, but just DVD+RW. After googling, it seems like a lot of people have trouble with this burner.

Anyway, now the problem is that it won’t even play a regular movie anymore. These are regular DVDs that I rent from netflix but every time I pop in the disc, it can’t read it. The only type that this currently reads is DVD+R movies that I had burned in the past. So in short, my D drive no longer read regular movies which is very troubling. I can clearly hear the drive trying to read DVD but that’s all it does. I did everything I can to fix the problem including installing its latest firmware, tried playing different movies, and even reinstalling windows XP, but to no avail.

While it would be nice to be able to fix my original problem, at this point, I would just like to be able to play regular DVDs like I was always able to.

If not too much trouble, I would like to get some help trying to fix this problem.
Thanks in advance.

By the way, this laptop is HP zx5070us and the D drive is Toshiba ODD-DVD SD-R6252.

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to me this sounds like the burner is malfunctioning. there are different issues that effect burning, but playback is straight forward.

make sure the discs are clean.
when you put a disc into the drive, can you browse it with windows explorer?
try them in another player and if they play ok then it doesn't sound good for your player.