[Eludick]

I have a Packard Bell Desktop Computer and everything was working fine untill a couple of months ago I suddenly for some reason my DVD drive didn't want to read DVD movies or discs anymore. It works perfectly if I put CD-R/RW into the drive but it doesn't want to read DVD discs.

I have then decided to do a system restore and then my computer crashed. I have loaded the recovery CD's to get my computer up and running again and thought that maybe my DVD drive will work again but found that it still doesn't want to read DVD discs. I have browsed on Windows website and have detected that I need a decoder that will read DVD's.

Can any one tell me what I can do to get my DVD disk drive working again?

[smax013]

Eludick said:

I have a Packard Bell Desktop Computer and everything was working fine untill a couple of months ago I suddenly for some reason my DVD drive didn't want to read DVD movies or discs anymore. It works perfectly if I put CD-R/RW into the drive but it doesn't want to read DVD discs.

I have then decided to do a system restore and then my computer crashed. I have loaded the recovery CD's to get my computer up and running again and thought that maybe my DVD drive will work again but found that it still doesn't want to read DVD discs. I have browsed on Windows website and have detected that I need a decoder that will read DVD's.


Can any one tell me what I can do to get my DVD disk drive working again?

When you say "won't read DVDs anymore", what specfically do you mean? Won't play DVD movie disks? Won't read DVD data disks (i.e. DVD/-R or DVD/-RW disks)?