Strange CD and DVD writing on Satellite A30

My Satellite A30 is out of warranty. When the location PCMCI cover broke, I had to completely dismantle the laptop to fix bent pins pcmcia. This was to remove the CD-RW/DVDR drive.

Now I can't burn CDs. I can see DVDs that I bought but not those rental. When I insert a purchased DVD WinDVD4 will automatically launch. With a DVD rental is not, and if I start it manually, it does not recognize that there is a dvd in the drive.

Does anyone have an idea what went wrong?

Hello

Eventually the rental of DVD media was designed for a different region and your Player supports the region code incorrectly.
You know that every DVD Player supports the different region codes and you can change it 4 times. This option is necessary if you want to watch movies to DVD that is designed for the European, United States, Asia, market etc.

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