My DVD comes up "Disk is dirty" and won't play.  Is there a way to clean it to get it to work?
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Well this may sound a little disgusting and a little unsanitary, but if you lick it with your tongue all the way around , it will clean it and get whatever is on your disc OFF, but if it is actually marks and scratches it might not work, but hey I have a disc that has a crack right through the middle of it and it works great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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most likely your cd is bad, give it a good cleaning the try again, then buy a new cd
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If you use it alot, you might try cleaning the player. You can get a cleaner at most electronics stores.
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If you have a DVD drive ( I assume you do) just use your windows media player...works flawless. Make sure you update it to the newest version so that you have the newest drivers and codecs available.
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if you only have windows media player istalled\nit wont play dvd or vcd`s,you need to install another\nplayer to act as codec`s , POWER DVD 5 is a good one.
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player readers have evolved in last 3/4 years.dvd's the same.my burned dvd's only play on machines from late '04 +.\nbe sure to be using a cleaner disc,$10 @ shack.best of luck\n(use r not rw)
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Clone DVD works very well.\nI use it.
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Is the disc blank...if it won't work on any disc then it needs to be cleaned...lens cleaning
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To to My Computer, right click, go to Hardware, Device Manager and see if you really have a DVD/CD ROM drive.  My guess is you only have a CD drive, which will neither play nor burn DVDs.\n-MM
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What exactly is your question? If your DVD drive is broken, I think you need to take it to a repair shop or get a new one.
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Try removing it and reinstalling it.\n\nAlso look at the System Settings from the Control Panel.  Go to the hardware tab and see if the DVD is working properly and that there are no conflicts.  If everything is OK then it has probably just got corrupt and needs reinstalling.
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Hi, \n   You might removed the codecs that need to run dvd files. Either download indeo codec or try reinstall windvd again. Dvd codecs are available try searching the web and download it.
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clean the disk from center to the outside with a clean non abrasive cloth. The manufacturers of CD's recommend using a record cleaner. Windex works great. Alcohol can possibly damage the cd.
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Check for DVD Burner or if it is a Codec go to microsoft, do searches and try installing ones that you may need.
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Make sure that all cables from the DVD-ROM drive are connected (IDE cable, power cable, and audio cable).  If the audio cable isn't attached the drive works fine for playing games and stuff, but not for listening to music/sound.
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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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If because of a scratch: you can polish it with a clear polymer CD repair kit. If it has a hole in the silver side - forget it.\n\nIf it has been burned wrong and the drive won't accept it, try http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/\nyou can try before you buy.