Disc read error occurred – any fixes?

So, I’m messing around with this prehistoric Sony Vaio laptop of mine, and I keep hitting this error message. But the real kicker is when I try to pop in a Windows 7 DVD, I get hit with this instead:



Does anyone have any bright ideas on what might be going on here?

Jack Alvarez said:So, I’m messing around with this prehistoric Sony Vaio laptop of mine, and I keep hitting this error message. But the real kicker is when I try to pop in a Windows 7 DVD, I get hit with this instead:



Does anyone have any bright ideas on what might be going on here?

Just take that drive over to a buddy's place and test it there. If it works fine on their rig, then you're looking at an issue on your end. If it still acts up there too, then yeah... the drive is toast.

Take a look at the hard drive health status using CrystalDiskInfo...

So, what's the move if I can't even get my laptop to boot up?