dvd drive not working

[bmw3]

Hi can anyone tell me how i can get my internal dvd/ cd drive working again ?
1) i can play cd's on it
2) my external dvd drive works fine (usb)
3) when i whent onto the help pages to try and find the trouble it said i need to install the codex files if these files are not there then my ex drive would not work would it ? is it possable i have turned them off for my internal drive if so how do iturn thm on again ?
o/s xp home
Thankyou for any advice anyone can give me.

[Duracell]

Originally Posted by bmw3

is it possable i have turned them off for my internal drive if so how do iturn thm on again ?

no it's not possible to turn codecs off for the internal one and using the same codecs successful for the external drive; so this can not be the problem;

compare the region code between both drives in Windows' device manager;
anyhow it may be a hardware problem; check the internal drive in an other PC;


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[bmw3]

Originally Posted by bmw3

Hi can anyone tell me how i can get my internal dvd/ cd drive working again ?
1) i can play cd's on it
2) my external dvd drive works fine (usb)
3) when i whent onto the help pages to try and find the trouble it said i need to install the codex files if these files are not there then my ex drive would not work would it ? is it possable i have turned them off for my internal drive if so how do iturn thm on again ?
o/s xp home
Thankyou for any advice anyone can give me.

Hi thankyou for your reply my drive is now working again but i do not know why this is what i did
1) changed drive letter to the letter used by my ex drive (ex not pluged in) drive still not working
2) changed back drive now working

can anyone explain what may have caused this ?

3) there is 1 film the drive will still not play "casualties of war" (retail) but it plays fine in my ex drive
can anyone explain why this one film will not play in my internal drive ?

[Duracell]

Originally Posted by bmw3

can anyone explain what may have caused this ?

i can't;

can anyone explain why this one film will not play in my internal drive ?

if it is an original, pressed DVD it might be the copy protection; if it is already a burned DVD it might be incompatible/disliked media;