I have a Compaq Presario notebook V6444US with a dual processor and 2GB memory, a 120 GB Hard Drive, a partitioned D: Drive which acts as a backup in the place of CD Disks, and a DVD-RAM E: Drive that is supposed to be able to record as well as burn CDs and DVDs.
However, the E: Drive is selectively playing some DVD videos and not others; and no one seems to have an answer. One possibility was that Windows XP (my OS) has a history of not being able to read CD-ROMs on a DVD-RAM Drive. Another possibility is that the optical drive on this model is faulty and HP wants me to ship it to them for repairs…something I’d rather avoid as I went through 4 computers that way a year ago and don’t want to go through it again. AQnother pragmatist suggested that computers are by their very nature qwerky and that I might fare better by copying the DVD to my Hard Drive and then burning it onto a new DVD-R. (I simply don’t don’t know how to do this.) I have tried to copy and burn, but cannot manage to do that, either.
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