DVD Rom isn't reading discs

The game may be not supported with the current Operating System Perhaps!!! What was your old computer's Operating system? And since the CD-ROM is 14 years old does it has too many scratch?? These days computer CD/DVD drives will never read the disc if they are scratched...

Finally, when you try installing the game, do you encounter any error message? if yes please post it....always remember if your posting your problem in forum, make sure that you provide all information about the issue.

Hi,
I would like to help with your concern about you cd-rom not reading most of your game disc.
Follow these step - on your desktop click on start
- on the start search bar type in - regedit - it will show you regedit on the left pane window, right click on regedit and left click on run as administrator
- you will see the registry editor window, on the left pane window will be a list - Look for HKEYLOCALMACHINE, click on the arrow on the left side of it to show the sub menu
- This should be the path that you should follow HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
- {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} - this will be your cd-rom/dvd-rom which ever you have on your laptop will show
- right click on the upper and lower filters and delete both, click yes if it ask if you are sure to delete the upper and lower filters, then close the registry editor window and restart your computer
- after deleting both upper and lower filters close the registry editor window and restart your computer
- after restarting your computer check to see if your disc can now be ready by the disc drive with out ejecting any discs.
I hope that this help you with your concern regarding your disc drive.
Have a nice day.

what disc your using to boot?
just leave bootable disc in the dvd drive such as OS and drivers dell disc.
power off then on the laptop keep tap on F12 then select onboard CD/DVD ROM then press enter then tap space bar.
if still not reading any disc then have you dvd drive replace.

Go to Control Panel and uninstall the program you installed (CD/DVD) installer. Reinstall the program.

buy new dvd rw cd rom

How did you made it boot to the disc? if you used keystrokes to do so, it would be better if you go into your BIOS and set the boot priority making the dvd drive as priority and see if it is gonna work that way. If it does'nt you need to be concerned about the drive itself, it might be having problems as well.

By a new one

did you clean the optical lens? if you do so, then you've got same problem,my suggestion is, you just purchase a new dvd rom drive, because your dvd has optical lens problem. it happened to me a long time ago with my client, what i did i open the laptop then i changed it with a brand new dvd rom drive. If you are going to repair that dvd it is not advisable, it might be back when the same problem.

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I'm starting to think some of the generic DVD-RW devices Dell uses in its computers are prone to early failure. The DVD-RW in my XPS-400 was called "HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H21N".

I'm going to try cleaning it, and then just swap it out for a better device.