Drive won't read CD

[spinz]

I recently noticed that my drive won't read original Audio Cds or Original Program CDs. It can still read original dvds, data cds and copied cds/dvds. I've tried reinstalling/ updating the driver, no luck.
I have a HP Dv6446us which is only 1 month old, running on Vista.
Any help would be grateful.

I have a feeling it's something to do with a corrupt file but i have no clue where to look or where the CD Driver folder is.

 

[dmroeder]

I read on a site not too long ago that this is a registry problem. A program was probably installed that goofed up some registry entry's.

If you pop in the operating system disk that came with you notebook and reboot, then go through a repair install. If you are not familliar with it, google it. It will basically replace all of you system as well as rebuild your registry.

Please post back your results if you try this.

 

[spinz]

interesting. will this format the hard drive? or will it just fix system files and leave all my programs and files alone?

 

[Scotteq]

It will fix system files and leave the rest alone.

 

[spinz]

I did what you said dmroeder. no luck. still reading other discs but not official ones.

I found out that the dvd player is a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-851s if that helps anyone.

I'm thinking of doing a clean install. i'm not that computer savvy, so how do i do a clean install? my laptop came with vista in harddrive so i don't have discs.