The dvd drive in my Compaq CQ60 laptop stopped working after a few months. It will no longer play dvds cds or function with any information disks. I want to upgrade from Vista to the W7 os I have the disks but the E drive no longer functions.

Try reseatting the DVD/CD drive also reinstall the DVD/CD driver.
If this does not fix the problem then most likely the DVD/CD drive is faulty and then needs to be replaced.

Laser is starting to go bad in your drive. Replace the DVD-RW drive.

to play dvd, a software is necessary. examples are power player. Xync, VLC are a few commonly available players that may play a DVD format, Real is also a good choice.
download any freeware to play DVD. Rest is okay.



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Your dvd drive might be bad, As a computer repair tech e see this is the problem to most bad dvd/cd drives.

Are you sure yours is a DVD player? It could only be a CD-CD writer, which will NOT play DVDs.
Open your control panel ->system->hardware->device manager and click on the DVD/CD-ROM drives icon. The listed devices will tell you if you really have a dvd player or not. If you do really have a dvd player, try a different dvd

Could be a DVD codec issue. Try downloading VLC from here


http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

I hate to ask silly questions but are you sure you have a DVD drive installed? This model cames with 4 options for optical drives and 2 of the options did not support DVDs.
Look on the door of the drive an make sure it imprinted with DVD somewhere.

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Provide a CD/DVD cleaner disc and clean it maybe it help;
I encoutered that problem 3 months ago, the DVD ROM recognized only few DVD disc, other DVD's won't even the windows is freshly installed. The laptop was return back to the store they replace it.

However, in your case; it work fine before so maybe i suggest you to clean your DVD rom using the cleaner, if not work then , scan your computer with a potent antivirus, if this not work also, maybe i recommend to format and reinstall the system,

If all of those are not working maybe its time for you to enjoy the warranty of your laptop if the laptop has a warranty. hope this help.

If you have used and/or burned a DVD that wasn't tested to work successfully with your DVD-rom then there is the off chance that it ruined the DVD portion of the drive. I have had the same problem myself and unfortunately the only solution is to replace the drive or get an external drive. If your laptop is still under warranty then see what the manufacturer can do for you.