Software to examine a DVD drive?

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Videofreak

My DVD drive has stopped reading DVD's. It reads normal CD fine. I've
cleaned it but it still doesn't want to read the DVD's. I've tried
removing it from the listing in Win98SE's Device Manager I've tried
reinstalling the driver necessary for my DVD card just incase. But
still nothing. So I was wondering if there was any software that can
examine the hardware of the DVD drive to determine if the DVD laser is
out of whack or something.

Videofreak
"And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Sahara's which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The earth will become a holy land which will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters of the universe."
 
My DVD drive has stopped reading DVD's. It reads normal CD fine.

DVDs are read by a different lense to CDs inside the drive. Therefore I
suggest that you clean the DVD lense with a DVD lense cleaner. Having said
that my CDRW/DVD combo drive stopped reading CDs for ages then all of a
sudden with no other changes started reading them again perfectly. Maybe
some speck of dust got blown off and everything went back to normal. Try it
at least.
"And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and
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will cross the airless Sahara's which separate planet from planet and sun
from sun. The earth will become a holy land which will be visited by
pilgrims from all quarters of the universe."

Interesting prediction.
 
DVDs are read by a different lense to CDs inside the drive. Therefore I
suggest that you clean the DVD lense with a DVD lense cleaner. Having said
that my CDRW/DVD combo drive stopped reading CDs for ages then all of a
sudden with no other changes started reading them again perfectly. Maybe
some speck of dust got blown off and everything went back to normal. Try it
at least.
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Yeah I tried cleaning it. Perhaps I will have to do it over several
passes
will cross the airless Sahara's which separate planet from planet and sun
from sun. The earth will become a holy land which will be visited by
pilgrims from all quarters of the universe."

Interesting prediction.
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Its actually not the complete quote. I forget the rest of it. Yeah its
a nice thought. It would be awesome it were ever to become true.

Videofreak
"And then, the earth being small, mankind will
migrate into space, and will cross the airless
Sahara's which separate planet from planet and
sun from sun. The earth will become a holy land
which will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters
of the universe."
 
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