using an old (2000) laptop's dvd drive to read DVD+R or +R..

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My old windows laptop appears not to be able to read a DVD disk with
data on it. But it can play a movie. Is this normal? (I suppose back in
2000 there were no DVD burners, so they didn't think/know to have them
read data written from a home PC, or what?) What should I look at, if
anything, to get the drive to read a data DVD disk?

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Paul Rubin wrote:

> "Tdub" <gripshift5@email.com> writes:
>> My old windows laptop appears not to be able to read a DVD disk with
>> data on it. But it can play a movie. Is this normal?
>
> If you mean it can only read factory-pressed discs and not recordable
> discs, yes, that is normal.
>
>> (I suppose back in 2000 there were no DVD burners, so they didn't
>> think/know to have them read data written from a home PC, or what?)
>> What should I look at, if anything, to get the drive to read a data
>> DVD disk?
>
> Use another drive.

Sounds like a bad drive. My Thinkpad 770 has never had any trouble with
burned DVDs and it came with Windows 9_5_.

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