I have a Sony Vaio VPCF132FX with a Optiarc BD Rom BC-5500H drive (with file version 6.1.7600.16385). The drive plays CD's and DVD's without any problem, and writes to CD-R and DVD+/-R discs. However when I insert a Blu-Ray disc (have tried several) the disc spins, and you hear a sound of it trying to read the disc, but in my computer and the Blu-Ray player program (Corel WinDVD BD), it shows no disc inserted. I have only burned 3 DVD's (the recovery discs), and played maybe 2 regular discs and part of a Blu-Ray disc when I first got the computer. All in total I've used the drive like around 5 times (most of my programs are on a network drive that I install them from). I have recently installed a new hard drive with more space and have tried both the new drive and the old drive with no luck. I have went through the device manager, uninstalled the drive and rebooted the computer and that still doesn't work. The device manager has it listed as "Optiarc BD Rom BC-5500H." I have all the updates from the Sony site and the Windows updates as well. I've even looked for firmware updates on Sony, but it says none are available. Is there anything else I can try before considering replacing a drive that I've only used less than a handful of times (it plays everything except for Blu-Ray)? And if I have to replace the drive, what Blu-Ray read and write drives can I use that is SATA connection and has the eject button in the same spot? Also, if I do replace the drive, will Windows automatically install the drivers for the drive, or will I have to search for and download them?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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