Satellite A300-1 M 1 - skates from CD/DVD, makes noise but does not read the CD

I own a laptop Satellite A300 - 1 M 1

He reads some DVD, windows media player or VLC, but fails to read CDs and many DVDs

The drive is recognized in Windows Vista. I updated the drives and rebooted. Then removed from devide Manager and rebooted. The removal of the UpperFilters and LowerFilters registry and restarted it again.

The problem is it exactly even. I can read a DVD (DVD movie) but not a CD (with data). I can read both disks on a different laptop.
When I insert the DVD, the disc spins and in few seconds it appears in windows Explorer and can be played with Windows Media Player or VLC, for example. When I insert a CD with the data, CD towers, there is slippage noises, at different speeds. The mouse cursor changes briefly shhowing a disc below it, the orange light flashes, but after some 40 seconds or so only a message appears "Please insert a readable disc. Needless to say, I tried several different CD. Only DVD movie I managed to read on the player.

The drive is listed on the device as a Manager:
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA - T50N

The CMN Satellite A300 - 1 M 1 are:
Intel CoreDuo P8400 2.26 GHz
4 GB OF RAM
I'm using Windows Vista (as it was installed on this laptop)

What can I do to fix this?

Hello

I think that there is not much to buddy
I think that it s a CD/DVD drive problem
There might be something wrong with the lens of laser disk or disks are not totally compatible

You could try burning the disks on another computer and could attempt to read copied discs

Otherwise you will need a new CD/DVD drive

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