Dvd drive wont recognize disc

1. If you know the disc isn't blank, check whether the data surface is damaged.
2. Try a different disc.
3. Try the disc in another computer's drive.
4. Try cleaning the drive with a CD/DVD drive cleaning product.
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How to fix a DVD "No disc" error (3 solutions)

There are a number of possibllities for this problem:

1. Your drive may be dirty. Try to get a drive cleaner, run it then try again

2. The disc itself is faulty. Try using it on another computer's drive and see if you can read it

3. It is a region-specific DVD. Some movies can only be played on DVD's made for that region. Although you can change your DVD's region to be able to read that DVD, you will then not be able to read DVD's for your current region. The recommendation here is to buy a multi-region DVD player. You do not need to get the top of the line model as these players can be quite cheap.

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