CD/DVD Drive won't read burnt films on disc

I got a desktop PC from my neighbour. It's a Compaq, running XP. I had burnt a bunch of films onto a blank DVD+RW disc and tried to run it on this desktop. The drive whirls and the mouse cursor turns into a whirling CD icon but there is no auto run, no error message, no options. Nothing.

My 'D' drive cannot read it.The disc with the burnt films isn't even acknowledged on the D drive which just says "DVD Drive (D: )" The desktop drive is both a CD and DVD drive. I have also tried running this disc in my laptop and it auto runs just fine.
I have also tried running a normal DVD in my desktop and that works and normal computer program CDs work on it too. I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. The Device Manager shows there is no update needed etc.

I don't think there are any loose cables as the drive is internal and everything else works just fine. Any ideas? Need more details? Let me know.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

First off..... NEVER use re-writable disks for anything you really want to keep.
Those disks will usually read reliably on the same drive that created them, (even that is not guaranteed) but will seldom read reliably on other drives.

If using CD's, then use the CD-R and when using DVD's, use DVD+R
and just forget about using the RW disks.

Good Luck and Happy Holidays!

The Shadow :cool