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Odd DVD drive issue windows 7

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helpmeimstuck

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Hi there,

I had a CD RW drive and a DVD RAM drive with my dell desktop. THe dektop is 6 years old and came with XP but I have recently upgraded to Windows 7 without a hitch.

Anywho, it seems that BOTH drives started working sporadically at the same time, about 3 weeks ago or so is when I first noticed it when I tried to watch some films from a DVD. It would play then freeze then not respond and the disc would click-click around in the drive and I would be forced to take it out and put it back in again. Sometimes it wouldn't work at all and other times would stop halfway through a film then work again.

Since the DVDs plus a pc game worked FINE in my other 2 laptops that were also upgraded from Xp to 7, I put it down to a hardware failure. So I bought a new DVD RW drive. Installed it, and films that wouldnt read at all on the previous drive read fine with this new one, but this time others didn't work and the pc game didn't either.

It's really thrown me since it's impossible for all these DVD drives to be faulty, but I can't explain why all the DVD's and games work fine on other computers. Are there any known compatibility issues with drives on PCs upgraded from XP to windows 7?

Thanks in advance.
 
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