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It can read some discs, even burnt ones, but others it will not. The discs that it will not read, well some the other comps will read, and some will not. I have not tried burning with it, as that is not the issue I am having now. I did not verify all the discs, but all of them had completed their burn sucessfully. Could this be a software issue with my old comp, but even then, why do some work and some not?

I recently got a new computer with a windows 7 64-bit OS and a TSST Corp SH-S223C optical drive. My hobby is to burn anything that I find on the internet and create and whatnot - and I have what I consider a fairly nice collection. I maintain a list of all my dvds and their contents using the WhereIsIt v3.83.405 Portable program that has worked fine, except that recently I noticed that windows 7 gave me a notice of some smallish problem with it that I did not pay a lot of attention to at that time. At first, when I was cataloguing about a dozen dvd's everything was very nice, this after the alert. Then it would not read some discs. Now it will not read a vast majority of my burnt dvd's. Now these are my pride and joy, and I use only the best Verbatim blank dvd's. What happens when I put a disc in is that the optical drive just blinks and the green bar at the top keeps filling up and over and again. I used vso inspector, but when I put the disc in the program becomes non-responsive. I upgraded the firmware. The discs were burnt with ImgBurn (one of the previous incarnations). The computer came with one of the Nero's I deleted it but saw no improvement. I have no idea what this is, if it is a hardware or software issue. This collection means a lot to me, and I really want my new comp and my archive discs to get along. Please help.