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• will not play dvd videos now play, but audio / sound, sound work otherwise on my laptop but when I play video on dvd or video file, why?

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  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-check-disk-Chkdsk.html

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  My laptop Toshiba C50-A-137 (Windows 7 64-bit) has the following disk drive: * TSSTcorp CDDVDW SU - 208BB SCSI CdRom dur.*

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