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Dell Inspiron laptop unable to read DVDs
Morning all,
From what I can see, this seems to be a fairly common problem across computers...
My Dell Inspiron n5010 (Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit) sporadically won't read DVDs. A couple of nights ago, it took a couple of tries - last night, I couldn't get it to play one at all.
Having looked for various fixes, I have tried the following:
-Updating drivers
-Disabling and re-enabling the drive in device manager
-Going into the registry to remove recommended entries (high/low filters i think? I only had the "high" option, which apparently means that fix isn't for me...)
-Uninstalling any DVD-burning software that may be interfering with my laptop's own DVD player/software.
I'm at a bit of a loss now, I'm not a complete moron when it comes to computers, but i have a fairly limited array of solutions which i am able to attempt before i must ask for help.
So, i apologise in advance if this has been posted before...but does anyone have any suggestions as to how i might fix this?
Many thanks,
Alex