Can't play disks

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When I try to open a disk, the driver ejects it and it says please insert a
disk into drive. I tried uninstalling and installing the CD RW DRIVER, but
it still doesn't work. How can I fix this
 
When I try to open a disk, the driver ejects it and it says please insert a
disk into drive. I tried uninstalling and installing the CD RW DRIVER, but
it still doesn't work. How can I fix this
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What kind of disc? Any kind or just a blank?

MORE INFO please.
 
Does the optical drive read ANY disks? Is it a CD burner or DVD burner? If
it's a DVD optical drive, will it read one or the other?

Chances are the laser is dirty, either use a CD cleaning kit, or replace the
drive. There are two lasers in a DVD drive, one for the CD side and one for
the DVD side. If the drive will read either CD or DVD (but not both) then
one of the lasers has died.
 
I thought that commercial DVDs were two sided.
Cari (MS-MVP) said:
Does the optical drive read ANY disks? Is it a CD burner or DVD burner?
If it's a DVD optical drive, will it read one or the other?

Chances are the laser is dirty, either use a CD cleaning kit, or replace
the drive. There are two lasers in a DVD drive, one for the CD side and
one for the DVD side. If the drive will read either CD or DVD (but not
both) then one of the lasers has died.
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Dual layered is what I think you mean. Some commercial film DVDs were dual
sided when they first ccame out, widescreen on one side and standard pan and
scan on the other.

However, the optical drive doesn't care, it can't read both sides of a disk
at once.
 
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