Reading burnt DVD's - Equium A60

Hi peeps, was wondering if anyone out there can help me. I have a Equium A60-692 with a Pioneer DVR-K13A rom drive. The current problem I have is that when ever I insert a DVD that has been previously burnt, not just by my pc but others the rom drive fails to read it. Dvd's I have created in the past that used to work fine have also stopped playing. All i get is the orange led flashing at first and then it stays perminently on resulting in a failure in reading the dvd. The drive plays original movie dvds fine and also plays any form of cd. Do you think the drive is on its way out or is there a setting that has been altered? Any help on the matter would be greatly apreciated.
Kind regards Richard

Hi
Its not easy to say why its not possible to read the burning DVDs.
Did you close the burning session? Sometimes the medium can not be read because the burning sessions are not closed. But this is only possible if you burn CD/DVD several times.
The second possibility could me not supported medium. You should use different medias.
Nevertheless try to remove you drive from the device manager and reboot the unit. The OS should recognize the drive again. Well maybe this procedure will solve this issue.

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