Try to uninstall the DVD RW drivers at right click on my computer>Properties>Hardware>Device Manager and find the DVD ROM drives right click Unistall. If not working, i have not what else to tell.BUY a new one
Most DVD drives can read multiple formats of CDs and DVDs
That is a DVD burner. Most read and write to CDs as well as DVDs. Hybrid drives that read/burn CDs but only read DVDs also exist.
throw it away.
it will read everything except ps2 games
The laser that is in most DVD players can also read CDs, which is why most DVD players can play audio CDs. The laser in straight CD players cannot read DVDs.
Yes their is more cds than DVDs
4 to 3
I would shop at FYI if I was you :) They have many selections of CDs and DVDs there.
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A drive that is capable of writing to DVDs will almost always be capable of writing to CDs as well. A drive that can read DVDs is not necessarily capable of writing to a CD.
Red laser is normally used to read CDs while blue-violet laser is used to read DVDs. The reason is that blue-violet is a higher energy laser with a much smaller wavelenght - 650 billionths of a meter -, so the pits on the DVD's can be smaller and closer together than those on the CDs'.
Yes there is Free DVD Cloner that is a program for Windows that allows you to Burn or grab any type of CDs or DVDs [Data CDs (or Mode 1 ISO CDs), Audio CDs] from an ISO image file. you can also burn and grab data DVDs, HD DVDs, Video DVDs and Blu-ray disks (ISO) .