Picky DVD-RW?

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Alright i found my “old” Oblivion DVD and decided to install the game since i wanted to play some RPG. Anyway i pop the disc in and my DVD-RW starts “reading” it and then it “autoruns” but the autorun is an empty disc window and it’s like there is nothing on the DVD but when i click on properties it says it’s full… Then i threw in some random backup DVD which is scratched (unlike my Oblivion DVD which looks the same it did when i bought it) and it reads it no problem… What the hell is going on??

Oh and i forgot to mention. It takes around 2 minutes to read it and while reading it i hear a sound similar to those of that floppy makes when reading a diskette in approx. 1.5 second intervals

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Used to have that one drive that refused to read like every 5th disk… canned it.

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Yea it seems my drive is ****ed up. After i think 23rd time i popped the disc in it read it properly. Sadly i don’t have enough money to buy a new one so i guess i’ll just torrent the games and use my own serial keys for the games(that is allowed isn’t it?? If i already own the game and the original serial it isn’t considered as piracy?)

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I guess you should be ok.

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Try right Clicking the DVD drive and press Open, find the Setup.exe and install the game manually instead of waiting for autorun

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best place to get dvd rw is by going to the local scrap yard i have found some good dvd rw’s there some with games still in the drive

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Got a DVD burner in your PC? Try opening the DVD with that if you have. Sometimes DVD’s need the more accurate lasers of a DVD burner to be read properly.

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It seems i made a mistake. I referred my DVD burner as a DVD-RW. Anyway there is nothing wrong with the game disc i tried it on my friends PC a couple of times and it got read every time

I would do that if it didn’t show up as a blank CD. I can open it in My Computer but it just shows up as empty. I even installed DVD decrypter and it shows it is full and everything but i can’t see any of it. Only after a few minutes of ejecting and inserting the “holder”(or is it a drawer??) back in it manages to read it. Most of the time i don’t hear the noise it makes when it spins it instead i hear a weird sound similar to the one floppy makes when reading diskettes.

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could be dust particles on the laser i suggest getting a cd laser cleaning set

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I don’t think i can afford that now as i currently stand so i might do it manually(hoping it won’t break). Also it might be its old age(been using it since 2005) so it finally decided to die a slow death

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DVD drives are relatively unexpensive. You can find DVD readers for as low as $15 USD on new egg.