If you have a DVD drive and a compatible DVD decoder installed on your computer, you can use Windows Media Player to play a DVD-Video disc—this is the type of DVD that movies are distributed on.

This article describes a problem with CD or DVD drives not work, or is missing, or not recognized after installing or uninstalling programs.

If you would like to install a program from a disc, use the following steps: Insert the disc into your PC or external CD-DVD drive, and then follow the instructions on your screen. You might be asked for an admin password.

Disk Management in Windows helps you perform advanced storage tasks like initializing a new drive and extending or shrinking volumes. To open Disk Management, right-click (or long-press) the Start button and select Disk Management.

In the Player Library, in the top-right corner, select the Burn tab, select the Burn options button , and then select Audio CD or Data CD or DVD. Insert a blank disc into your CD or DVD burner. If your PC has more than one CD or DVD drive, select the drive you want to use.

Select Defragment and Optimize Drives from the list of results. Select the drive you want to work with. If it's a hard disk drive, select Analyze if you want Windows to check the drive to see if it needs optimization, or select Optimize to have Windows run optimization on the drive.

To work around this problem, you must use a different CD-ROM drive, or the CD-ROM manufacturer must reduce the length of the CD-ROM disc. Some Microsoft CD-ROM titles have been returned and re-stamped at the manufacturing plant to be less than 70 minutes long.

The Recovery Drive utility in Windows is a valuable tool designed to back up essential system files needed to restore a PC to its original state. This utility creates a USB recovery media that can help you restore your Windows device to its factory settings, even if you replace the hard drive or completely wipe the drive.

If you want to compress the OS drive, select File Explorer from the taskbar, and in the left pane, select This PC. Right-click or tap and hold the OS drive (usually disk C), and then select Properties, and in the General tab, select Compress this drive to …

If you see the number 0x00000000 where the last number is zero, the CD drive has problems verifying the game disc. To resolve this issue, use the following methods in the order that they appear in. Method 5: Disable or change compatibility mode