Do I need a new DVD drive? Help!

My laptop is in my sig. It's about 2 years old now.

DVD movies and games load and work fine. No problems there.

But I have this DVD data disk that I copied 5 .avi movie files to, and for some reason my computer isn't always able to read and access the files? Sometimes it'll load them up fine but the rest of the time my computer completely fails to read the data that's on the disk. Also, this is the second data DVD disk I've used, both a different brand, and I've experienced the same issue with both.

Any thoughts? Is my DVD drive a bust or is it in fact working perfectly and it just has an inherent problem reading data DVD's???

Thanks in advance.

 

Well, you can try two tests here. You can take data DVDs burned by your 6400 and see if another computer can read them. You can also take data DVDs burned by another computer and see if your 6400 can read them. Obviously the other computer's drive should be known to be working.

If the first test fails, your 6400 probably has a problem burning disks. If the second test fails, your 6400 probably has a problem reading disks. If neither test fails then something fishy is happening, and the cause of the problem is most likely due to the format in which you burn your disks, etc.

Else, you will probably need to replace the drive.

 

Thanks, I'll give it a try.