Hello gang.

I have this Dell laptop with Mint 17.3 Rosa on it

It works fine

But I am always wanting to tinker. I had Ubuntu on a Sony laptop and I liked it until that laptop died

I was thinking about putting it on this Dell, but the DVD does not seem to work properly.

I know the DVD is fine as it is what I used to install Ubuntu on the now dead machine

When I put the DVD in, the icon for a music DVD pops up ( I do have the boot order set correctly as I installed Mint from a DVD)

When I try booting to the DVD, it does not recognize it and goes right past it and boots from the HD

Any DVD (not music) I put in it thinks its a music DVD and I cannot open it

So apparenty there is something wrong with the DVD driver?

Any insight?

I dont really have to get this to work, all I use this for is for the internet and maybe some of the Libra office and Gimp programs and print from it and all that works just fine

Just curious what could be wrong

thanks

My guess is the drive isn't reading that dvd. If you have one or can get one (20 bucks on amazon) try booting from an external usb dvd drive. I have a D620 that boots external dvd drives from usb just fine.

Brian A,

There should be no need to buy an external DVD drive.

Use a spare USB drive.

NB The drive will be wiped of all existing data!

See post #7:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ss-4175563817/

Mint 17.3 is fine, by the way. You have already downloaded it.

Not all DVD drives read all disks. Some read DVD r+. Some read DVD r-. Some read both.

Owning lots of computers of various vintage. I already learned this.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-f...lu-ray-device/

thanks I know I could get another drive or install from a usb

I was just wondering why my DVD drive seemed to stop working.

I installed Mint using the same type of DVD (-R) that has Ubuntu on it. They came out of the same package of blank DVD's

even if I don't install Ubuntu I would like the DVD drive to work.

like I said any DVD I put in, it thinks its a music DVD by the icon that pops up but then it wont open the drive

I am not going to get real involved in it, just hoping someone would have maybe run into this before

Brian A,

Have you tried:

http://www.topcleaningsecrets.com/ho...vd-player.html