dvd-r drive stops detecting some dvds

[leoliver]

Hi Everyone,

I have a Dell Dimension 4550, Windows XP SP2. Which came with a pre-installed dvd read only drive, SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T , fireware F310. On my machine I have Media Player 11, Nero 7. And I have other applications for backing up my dvds.

Saturday I updated Nero 7 , and a back up application. Shortly, after those updates, I noticed that my Dell supplied Samsung dvd drive would no longer read certain dvds, while still readind others. Some retail, some burned. Funny thing was, just a few weeks ago the drive was reading the dvds that it would now fail to read.

I would like to ask if anyone has any ideas on what could be causing the problem. Software conflicts, corrupted drivers, etc.

And if the drive's drivers are corrupted, where can I get a driver update for this dvd drive?

And, a 2nd question, I saw that the drive has one driver from a "sonic solutions" company. Does anyone know what software could have installed that specfic driver?

The other 3 drivers are Microsoft drivers, on the Samsung dvd drive.

Your feedback will be appreciated

[ripken204]

so retail dvd movies are not playing? what do you mean by that, you can't even browse the disk?

what media players have you tried? try vlc media player.

Edited June 18, 2007 by ripken204

[spacesurfer]

I have a Pioneer DVD burner that I've used to burn DVD's and they would read for like the first week. After that - they're done for - unreadable. I attribute this to cheap DVD media. I should have know better to buy cheap DVD-R's.

On the other hand, someone had given me DVDs that were unreadable by this Pioneer. I thought it was the media but I replaced the Pioneer with a new Samsung burner and it reads them fine. So I think my burner was just getting old.

So I think there could be two problems for you: bad/defective/cheap media or burner too old to read your media.