Acer TravelMate 4230-6499 Notebook "dvd keeps reading bad disc" Questions

...problem with that CD, unless you have a hardware problem with your cd i have a acer travelmate 4230 and it has a dvd-rw. however, dvd is not reading only CD-R is working. what can I do please

...drivers firmware that can be found from the manufactures webpage. try a different DVD disc. If it works, the other disc is bad. You can try to recover it using ddrescue on the knoppix live linux

DVD on my Laptop it doesnt seem to recognize that i have put one in there. It keeps making the loading sounds and never eventuates to anything. I have tried to open the disc in my computer but nothing

...Bad sectors = impending doom. If it won't boot with the hard drive removed....try removing the optical (dvd) drive. If still no joy with hd and optical removed, let me know. You can access the hard ...

...DVD. Both drives take EXCEEDINGLY long to load (the Windows 7 took 23 hours!!!). Both display a pop up at some time during installation display an error message saying a certain file could not be ...

DVD/CD combo drive and for a while both were working, now only I am only able to burn CDs not DVDs, the computer says the drive is working fine, not so much - It keeps asking to 'insert disc'. I don't