DVDRAM GT30L doesnt read or burn but is recognized by OS and BIOS

Ok, after a Hitachi HD failure (second Hitachi drive failure within 2 yrs..... BAD HP for using Hitachi!!!!!!!).... I have ensured the Memory is good, Bios is in working order etc.. I have put in a temp sata 60 gig Seagate in for testing the system.. Come to find out.. The DVDRAM GT30L Sata internal DVD drive IS recognized by BIOS but when trying to boot from the DRIVE, the drive is not reading anything.. I have installed windows 7 via bootable thumb drive and same thing in the windows 7 os.. DVD Drive is recognized but the drive doesn't read anything... When you put a disc in, you can hear it act like it is trying to read but fails to recognize any disc. I need to know a couple of things before proceeding...
Does anyone know of a testing software that checks to see if the Drive itself is bad? (I'm assuming it is as the drive works and you can hear it when you put in a disc)
OR this might be a motheboard controller issue?? As this Hard Disc is a SATA as well and is not having any issues... That leads me to believe that the controllers on the motherboard on OK.. BUT, i'm not fluent enough to know for sure...
2 possibles.. The DVD Drive is bad by itself OR something is wrong on the motherboard for this drive...
I have not updated drivers (not needed as I can't even boot from a disc on reboot, this tells me that nothing is wrong with the I/O, I think).
ALSO, the BIOS version for this G62-340US laptop is a F29... the latest on the website is F27.. (what is up with that?!?!?!?!).. Since HP doesn't have a F29 listed on their site for this laptop.. should I roll the F27 in overriding the F29??? Wouldn't think so but just wanting some help here as much as possible...
If anyone knows of any tools that can narrow down my issues further that what I have already assessed.. Please feel free to mention it.. no need spending money on something that DOESN'T need fixing.. .. although the SATA DVD Drive is EXTREMELY easy to replace.. but again, no needing spending 70 bucks replacing a perfectly good drive, again, if that is not the issue.
Thanks in advance to anyone offering help and information..
Tazzin

Thanks for the replies.
I have a USB stick with arch base installed. It boots any pc I put it in. But if I put it a running windows. windows wants to format the thumb drive.
If a have a windows pc that does not boot. (dead sata/ide) I can boot the pc with the arch usb thumb drive and recover files from the dead windows sata/ide drive. By copying them to the arch USB thumb drive. But I can not transfer them to a working windows OS because windows does not recognize the Arch USB thumb drive file format. (ext4) Or can not read the boot record. Not sure which. It request to format the USB thumb drive.
I was thinking to install arch base to a USB drive that was formated vfat (fat32). But the arch wiki discourages running arch linux on fat file system. although you can install the ISO image to fat, but you can not install any other apps from the repository to the ISO image.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _a_USB_key
I am going to try to install to a fat file system to see what happens. But I do not think it will work. Thanks for the ideas Alber and Trilby. Sorry I did not explain myself. Hope I did here.

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