How can you make sure that you have a dvd drive

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Then more than likely you don't. Also another way to check is without a disc
in the drive open My Computer and it will tell you CD Drive, CD-RW Drive,
DVD Drive, etc.

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Sometimes to really make sure, its best to open Device Manager and expand
DVD/CD-ROM drives.

I remember in 5600, my DVD and DVD+RW drives were displayed as CD drives.
 
Put a DVD media into it and see if you can read it (in a computer, even
a movie DVD is just a data DVD with files and folders on it)

Also, in Control Panel, Device manager, the model number of the drive is
usually visible under "properties", you can look that up online to see
if it's a DVD or just a CD.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stanley" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: How can you make sure that you have a dvd drive

But when i put a dvd in it reads it and when i put another it dose not
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Then it sounds like you do HAVE a DVD drive, but it's a bit....flaky.
 
Go to Walmart, or any other local store, in the electronics section, and get
a CD/DVD laser cleaning disk. That should allow it to read all DVDs.
Simple maintenance will fix most seemingly major issues.

Hope this helps :-)
 
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