Dvd/cd burner not working

When I burn a dvd everything seems to be working just fine until I try to play the dvd. Each of the 3 different dvd players I have tried all say "no disc". I checked the settings on the burning program I'm using, which is Allok, but as I said everything seems to be fine. I used device manager to see if there was a problem there and to also see if the driver need to be updated, but everything there was fine and up to date already. I tried to burn a cd to find out if it was also not working. Each of the burning programs I tried kept telling me to insert a blank cd, even after trying several different brands of cd's too. I ran scans with my anti-virus and anti-malware programs since I wasn't sure if a virus or spyware could possibly be causing the problems. But as I said I'm not finding any cause for the problems. I haven't tried system restore yet. I have an external hard drive I can save all my important files to in case I need to reformat (is that the right word?) and go back to factory settings. I also wanted to know if uninstalling then reinstalling the burner might help? I just want to say any help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I'm listing the details of what I'm running below.......


My laptop is an
HP G61 Notebook
AMD Sempron (tm) M100 2.0 GHz 64 Bit OS
Windows Home Premium

The Dvd/cd burners details are
HP CDDVDW TS-L633M ATA Device
Driver version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)

 

Does your computer recognize the DVD as written and containing the DVD files? Will a player that can handle those type of files such as VLC play the video? (Just want to determine if the DVD is burned completely and can be recognized as containing DVD files on a computer.) That would tell us if the burner is working and whether it might be a compatibility problem with your DVD players.

 

Sorry took a bit to reply. Well I tried quite a few different discs, dvd's and cd's I have previously burned using this computer. It didnt play any of them so I tried some Dvd's and games I purchased from a store and still nothing. So I guess this means the drive is no longer working at all. Is there anything that I can try before I take it in to be fixed?