Laptop DVD Drive Issue

HumanMage

HumanMage

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I'm having an issue playing DVD movies with my laptops DVD drive. The drive recognizes that there is a disc in the drive because the icons change. However, I click on it to initiate the menu and all I receive is a dialogue box that asks how I want to format the DVD. This doesn't make sense to me.

The drive recognizes and plays every other media type I've thrown at it. I've used CD's, Game DVD's, DVDs of movie clips, etc etc. I only have trouble reading movies for some reason. I've looked at updating my drivers, disabling/re-enabling, and uninstalling/re-installing and nothing has worked. The driver was up to date by the way. Does anyone have any insight on what is the cause of this?

My operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, if that has anything to do with it.
 
That's almost certainly a problem with your autorun. Just as a test, try opening whatever program you wish to play the movie with and try starting it that way. Might as well check what windows has set too... Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > AutoPlay
 
I didn't have an option set in the Autoplay settings for DVD Movie. I set it to Windows Media Player, reinserted the disc and still nothing. When I eject and put in the disc the drive icons change, but each time I double click to begin running the movie I get an option to burn the disc still. Both the computer and I know the disc isn't empty, but I get that dialogue box anyway.

I tried running it in Windows Media Player but to no avail. WMP didn't recognize that there was a disc in the drive.
 
This makes me wonder even more. I tried all my DVD movies I have in my dorm room. Why would Goodfellas, and The Big Lebowski work off the bat while the Star Wars Trilogies don't? This is quite weird.
 
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