cd/dvd drive

[thursday22dp]

Ok my cd burner is a combo drive http://rosewill.com/product/product.aspx?productId=151

it reads and installs data on cds fine

i inserted american pie and a family guy dvd neither are recognized by the drive, it just shows nothing is on the drive

 

[CowGoesMoo]

This may be insulting/dumb question, but hwo sure are you that they sent you a dvd player. They make CD/RW burners that look exactly same

 

[thursday22dp]

it says dvd-rom on the front of the drive

 

[thursday22dp]

no1?

 

[thursday22dp]

come on i need this bad

 

[thegimp03]

Try getting some software like PowerDVD or WinDVD and see if they will run then.

 

[Bozo Galora]

have you tried burning a test DVd with Nero CD-DVDSpeed? Just to see if t works?

What player sw are you using?

 

[Deckham]

Region incompatibility?

 

[thursday22dp]

yeah powerDVD doesnt work..its a rosewill RB-321

 

[Jeff7]

Could just be a defective drive too; my sister's laptop drive was a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo. At some point, it just wouldn't see CDs in the drive at all - DVD's worked fine. One theory was that the hardware, perhaps the laser itself, for reading CDs was dead, but the DVD portion still worked. Maybe your drive has a similar problem?

 

[thursday22dp]

hmmmm maybe

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Could just be a defective drive too; my sister's laptop drive was a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo. At some point, it just wouldn't see CDs in the drive at all - DVD's worked fine. One theory was that the hardware, perhaps the laser itself, for reading CDs was dead, but the DVD portion still worked. Maybe your drive has a similar problem?

Correct! Such drives have two laser lenses, and it is possible for the DVD one to be defective or dirty. If the drive is new, I would suspect defective. A good test would be to swap it for a similar known good drive temporarily to see if it works OK - just to eliminate any possible driver or software problem.

Sounds like it needs to go back to the source.