Equium A60 - DVD player does not read the data disks

Hello

I'm having a problem with my DVD drive on my laptop Toshiba Equium A60. The DVD drive (Pioneer DVD - RW DVR-K13A) will play store bought movies etc. without problem. He will also read a blank DVD when you put it in the drive, but once the information/data are on the disc, it won t detect the drive.

I'm not really good with computer so any help would be grateful. The computer used for any play he stopped just do a few months back.

Many thanks, Phil

Hello Phil

It is not easy to find explanations for these issues. What you can try is to create own data CD and check if the drive can read. I recommend buying a blank DVD-R from TDK. Over the past 7 years I never had no problem read/write TDK media.

Media that cannot be read properly? Is - this DVD-R, DVD - RW, DVD + R or a DVD + RW?
Please give us more information.

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