Inspiron 700 m disc has decided to stop working

24 x Combo DVD/CD-RW drive used to work perfectly, but is no longer.  I did no system of things recently that could have messed up.

Device Manager will not display any errors.

Power DVD doesn't recognize DVD movie.

Sonic Software eject.

System recognizes the drive but cannot read the data disk.

Diagnosis:

review of the device is correct.

both read and search controls are telling me to insert a CD of installation of type that contains the digital data.  Nothing works, I tried various of the installation CD and DVD.  So this seems to be the problem, but what I do from here?  I'm not a techie.

Any help would be appreciated.

Windows XP Professional.


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