My Samsung DVD ROM SD-612 does not play DVDs it only recognises it as a normal CD ROM! What do I do?
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Try using a lense cleaner. I had an HP cd-rw drive that did the same crap. It would never recognize a bured cd. Well, turns out, this particular CD Burner was made for HP by Samsung. I did a firmware and driver update, that helped alot. But I noticed that if the drive wasn't cleaned freaquently, it would not read burned cd's, or recognise blank ones. So first things, first, try just cleaning it.\n\nIf that doesn't fix it, I highly recomend replacing it!\nI've never had that great of luck with Samsung drives of any kind in a computer. \n\nI highly recomend drives made by LiteOn. They make a fantastic drives and they're very afordable.\n\nIf You want slightly better performance however, Toshiba makes a realy good drive as well. I highly recomend one of their DVD multi drives!\n\nFinaly, Pioneer! A little pricey, but not too bad. I've had a couple of their DVD rom drives. One thing I can say about the Pioneer drives is that they do much better with dirty and scratched Optical disks than most drives I've used. I don't know what their DVD burners cost now adays, but a strait up DVD-Rom shouldn't be more than 30 bucks!
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Are you sure it's a DVD Rom?\n\nHas it played DVD's before?\n\nTry re-installing the software.
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what is exactly your d: drive...a cdrom?!\ntry to do that:\nright click on "my computer"\nclick on "properties"\nclick on "hardware" and on "device manager"\nthere you see all your devices,\ncheck if you can see there your cd rom under "DVD/CDROM drives" and if it install currectly, unless,\ntry to reinstall it.
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Maybe you need a new CD or DVD ROM Drive. If you want, you can buy CD-RW drive or DVD-/+RW drive (Also burn CD)\n\nPlus, they not disk they disc like CD or DVD!\n\nDisk mean like floppy disk or hard drive
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You must have a DVD-R recorder. If you have a CD-R recorder it won't work for your DVD-R cd's. \nBuy one.
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maybe the dvd is defective....\n\nthe playstation reads copied dvds...\nsome  home dvd players do not play them...\nall computer dvd players should play them....\n\nso yeah maybe its the dvd u have tahts defective...
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You need to install a DVD codec. Most DVD-ROMs include software to playback DVDs, but if yours doesn't, you can get VLC, found at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/\nThis is a great open source DVD/multimedia player, which can play DVDs without a codec. \nIf you want to play DVDs natively in Windows Media Player or other applications, you'll have to get a full-fledged DVD decoder, which costs money. The DVD corporations charge a licensing fee to use their decoder, so you have to pay. There really isn't one best decoder out there, but I've had good success with WinDVD and PowerDVD. Do a search for either and you should be able to find one that will work.
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first you have to have DVD ROM and writer and burner , check your disk drive on the PC it has to say DVD ROM/RW. if you don't have it then it wont copy . if you have then simply copy to that drive in my computer and write it .
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If there is already a built in DVD drive, you only need an appropiate Player to play DVDs. I would suggest the Real Player, you can get it for free from http://www.real.com\n\nYou can see what type of CD/DVD you have. Right click on My Computer / Properties / Hardware / Device Manager / click on the + sign beside DVD/CD-Rom Drive and it will show up.
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just make sure it is a "multi region dvd" . many companies make them but seem to be hard to find.or you can just buy a "multi region dvd player" that will play any dvd
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go to device manager if there is question mark for ur cd dvd drive means there is a problem regrding ur driver . u can solve it easily but if it not then u might have to change ur cd dvd drive.\n\ngud luck
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Its not the computer, its the driver.\n\nLook on your CPU and see if you have a DVD driver. It should say DVD on it. If it just says CD-ROM then you cant burn DVDs.
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Maybe, your CD Rom or DVD Rom has no DVD Writer. You need a DVD Writer to write in DVD Roms, CD Writers cannot be used to write in DVD's
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What OS do u run ur pc on??\nTry scanning ur PC for hardware changes and if that does not work, goto your hardware - device manager and select ur CD/DVD drive, try to reinstall the driver from properties option. \nIf ur system is W9x or lower goodluck.\nALso have you tried to clean ur CDRW drive?
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You must be trying DVDs in your CD Rom or VCDs in your DVD player. Your information is not complete.\n\nIt only happens when your computer cannot read the format.
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A couple things:\nIs the software you're using updated? Check the help files to see how to update your software.\n\nAre you playing a DVD or just a video clip file? You might want to check if the DVD is dirty or if the video clip was badly made. You might want to check your DVD rom drive if its dusty or so.
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it can be the problem with that particular new dvd that you are trying to play on ur DVD-ROM, try some other dvds on it. u can use powerdvd 6.0, it is the best software available to play dvd.