HP dv6 DVD drive not reading DVD's

Hi, my HP dv6 is currently running windows 7 and for some reason it will not read DVD's. It will read CD's just fine no matter what's on them. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall the driver and find other sollutions and so far nothing has worked. Please help.
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Please give us the full model number....dv6-xxxx? An optical drive has more than one laser and sometimes the CD laser is fine but the DVD laser is bad and the only way to fix that is to replace the drive. Are you still under warranty? The only other thing you can try is a dvd laser cleaner disk like this:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2361964&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PPC&utm_t...
This would be a long shot but might work.

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