I bought a DVD hoping to watch it on my laptop but it doesn't seem to acknowledge there's even a disc in the drive. I can use the disc drive for other games and DVDs just fine and I've tried the DVD in both other computers and DVD players and those both work, just not my own computer. I can hear the drive spinning up and everything like normal when I insert the DVD but it eventually stops with no messages or anything and my drive is listed as empty under My Computer. I don't watch a lot of DVDs or use physical discs that much so I'm not exactly sure how to try and fix this; I've obviously googled around but the problems other people seem to have involve the disc being unreadable or unrecognized or something, whereas mine is as if there's nothing in the tray at all for this one specific disc. Any ideas?
Have you tried starting something like VLC and playing the DVD from there? Some other things that come to mind are DVD region mismatch or a bad DVD, but those would be unlikely considering you bought it new. Do you have another PC or DVD player, maybe even a game console you could try playing it on?
Yeah, same thing, I can hear the drive working when I click on it but nothing actually happens like the drive is empty.
Have you tried other discs? Sounds like the drive itself is working if you can hear it spinning. This is probably dumb to remind, but make sure the disc isn't blu-ray, because if you put it into a regular DVD drive, it won't read it.
Does the disc work in other devices?
Here's an actual suggestion that wasn't already covered in the OP:
Have you tried seeing if there's a driver update or weird firmware update at all for your disc drive?
I've had that happen once, albeit ages ago. Bought a movie on DVD, disc drive wouldn't recognize it because something about the DVD was "too new" for the drive to recognize. Went to the manufacturer site of my laptop at the time and found updated drivers for the disc drive, installed them, and bam, it recognized the DVD.
I think I may have glossed over that, I'll give it a shot.
As far as I can tell everything's up to date, still no luck.
That is bizarre. Do you have an external DVD drive that you could try? If that does not work, there is something wrong with the PC, but if it does work, there is something wrong with the DVD drive.
Is the DVD a DVD+RW by chance?
Not sure about the age of your laptop but a bunch of DVD drives have issues with RW disks.
There would be no solution to that if thats the case.
Although it sounds like you are trying a regular (movie) DVD.
Last option would be to just get an external, they go for as low as 15USD, usually around 20USD.
I'll give an external one a shot, thanks lads.
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