Compaq presario CQ60 214EM Unable to retrieve contents of Discs ! Vista home premium

Can anyone shed some light on my problem please ? I have a compaq presario Vista Home premium and until this week I have been able to insert run and copy from all of my discs back on to the laptop as and when I need images. Now I cannot do anything .I manage to get as far as seeing that the disc has folders on it but I cannot retrieve anything and worse when I go into Computer and dble click the DVD RW drive (e) it shows that on a few discs a certain amount of memory has been used on the disc but when I click to view folders there is nothing to see. On other discs I am told there is nothing on them even though I can clearly see the pie chart which shows how much memory has been used and how much is still available. I dont understand why this has happened.

Is this happening with disks that worked before or do old disks work and this is happening with new recorded disks?
Were the disks made by the system or by a different system?
Do the disks work in other computers?
Do the disks look like they have scratches/smudges/fingerprints if you hold the disk at an angle?
Try reviewing the steps in this document. Skip any steps that have already been tried.
More importantly, does the DVD drive have the newest firmware listed here?
Try updating the firmware as well as the steps in the document.
Let me know what happens.
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