The DVD drive on my PC wont read disc - Dell Dimension B110 PC Desktop

try cleaning the lens with a q-tip and alcohol

Was the disc made by someone or purchased from the store? Some players have a problem with certain dvds that someone made. Maybe your player can't handle the dvd format. Windows Media Player can't read all formats.

When you click Start/My Computer Is your dvd drive listed under my computer? If not, that's the problem.

Your dvd drive's lens might have got damaged so it is not reading your disk so you need to replace the lens and check it out if it does not work then you have to change the dvd drive

This is due to the fact your dvd drive reads only orginal non pirated CD/DVD or CD/DVD of high quality with less number of scratches

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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First clean the CD/DVD head by cd/dvd cleaner. If that doesnt work then probably you will need to get its read write head aligned or get the drive changed totally.

1. this is usually due to the laser reader in the CD or DVD drive has failed or the disks are dirty or scratched. or the DVD drive isn't capable of reading the disks at a certain speed and need replacement .
2. of the DVD cable has become disconnected at the motherboard connection.
3.DVD drive may need replacement.

1st step; Acquire/buy a cd/dvd rom drive cleaning tool kit from your local pc store.
2nd step; Install a dvd coder/decoder software, try Power DVD player software it has a trial version
3rd step; After installing the DVD coder/decoder from Power DVD player try playing a dvd movie rom disc it should work/play... hope these tips help ;-)

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You might try unistalling the drivers and reinstalling them from the device manager. However, this sounds like a harware issue, your DVD drive may be shot.