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it reads CDs just fine and some DVDs but not others

I have a tsstcorp sh-216bb DVD drive that I took out of my old Dell Vostro 270s and put into my new home-built rig. It seemed to work fine as it recognizes the drive, but when I went to rip a DVD, it wouldn't even recognize/acknowledge the disk. I tried to find an updated driver, but I cant...

data recovery it is then. any pc this drive plugs into wont even recognize the device and it slowly shuts down like a slow-motion crash, so software doesnt seem to be viable

ok, so ill buy extra drives then, so what can i do about the drive that currently has all my data on it?

I have a 1TB Western Digital hard drive (WD10EZEX-75ZF5A0) from an old 2012 dell PC that seems to have gone bad. I left my PC running one night to run a full AV scan and the next day, my pc was sluggish and locked up. When i tried to reboot, it wouldn't get past the BIOS or "repairing windows"...