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Cant play DVDs after formatting

  • 20-05-2006 10:39am
    #1
    eamoss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭


    Im after formatting a friends laptop and after formatting I cant play dvds. It says "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not instialled on your computer." Does anyone know where I can find a decoder for this laptop?

    OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
    Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
    OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
    System Name ADRIAN-3D5166A4
    System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
    System Model HP nx9005 (DG220T)
    System Type X86-based PC
    Processor x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~1788 Mhz
    BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies Ltd. KAM1.44, 23/06/2003
    SMBIOS Version 2.3
    Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
    System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
    Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
    Locale United States
    Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
    User Name ADRIAN-3D5166A4\Adrian
    Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
    Total Physical Memory 256.00 MB
    Available Physical Memory 66.49 MB
    Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
    Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
    Page File Space 465.04 MB
    Page File C:\pagefile.sys


Comments

  • #2
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    See here.

    As far as I know there's no free ones. Most computers come preinstalled with one. If your friend has the discs that came with his computer, it might be on one of them

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  • #3
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    when formatting you wiped the drive, taking with it any sofware that plays DVD's! Try download VLC player. As far as i know, it can play DVD's.


  • #4
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    VLC should work, give it a try and let us know. You should have gotten a re-installation CD with some dvd software on it, but maybe not.


  • #5
    eamoss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭eamoss


    Yeah it worked but I cant open files on a DVD. I have some software on a dvd which I want to install but it wont read the cd. I have Sonic MyDVD 5.3 LE and RecordNow 7.3 LE Software for my Dell computer install it into the laptop and still couldnt open dvds. Must be no decoders on that cd.


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