Hi there,
I sorry I know this has been posted before but I cannot find a solution to the problems I am having.
Firstly, Initially I had no problems with the drive which I purchased 3 months ago. about a month later I reinstalled Windows XP Pro and have lost nearly all features of the Drive.
Here are my problems:

1 Cannot read certain DVD's ( commercial )

2 Cannot read any BURNED DVD-R'S ( except those which I myself burned previously on this drive )
The other DVD-r's have come from a friends machine and work on his and on my DVD player. ???

3 Cannot read DVD's that come with PC FORMAT OR ANY OTHER MAGS ??

4 Can run and install everything from CD format media.

5 Can read and Play audio cd's

I have installed all WINDVD and Power DVD software so it's not a codec issue.
I have installed the latest firmwares ( 1.08 (2) from Herri after the 1.09 official ones didn't make any difference either) .
I orginally had my DVD/R as secondary master ..but changed it to primary Master as I read somewhere that should make a difference....

all with no joy...

I'd greatly appriciate any help you may offer.
The only thing I have not done is a lense cleaner ...but as it's so new I didn't think that could be the reason.

I must add normally the DVD cannot be even found in the drive..but if I GET alcohol 120% to make an image of the DVD it can find it ..but gets read errors at every step ? The disk is perfectly clean with no scratches.