How to copy DVD with super bit?

Why won't my DVD player work?

• DVD Drive suddenly stopped working... why oh why? I was backing up a game CD (those cheap $10 dollar ones you find in the bargain bin at Best Buy). I was using CloneCD and copying CD to CD from my really old CD drive to my 10 month old DVD writer. Halfway through I got a read/write error and since I knew my old CD drive sorta acts a bit sketchy these days (this is the first time I've used it for months) I assumed that the CD drive just crapped out. So I switched the game CD to the DVD drive in order to copy from the DVD to my harddrive. However, the DVD drive can not read any discs anymore. I can see the drive, but when I put a disc in it, nothing happens. When I click the drive, it says it's empty and to insert a disc. Oddly enough, the old drive can still see the disc. I've tried several other discs with the same result. I've restarted and uninstalled the DVD drive and reinstalled. no improvement. I've unplugged the IDE cable from the old drive and plugged it into the new one (in case the cable was screwy), but it's the same thing. I can see the drive, but the discs don't appear. I have no clue what has happened. I can't think of why CloneCD would have affected how my DVD writer, but right before using the program, everything worked fine. Any tips on what else to check or what might have happened? And if anyone suggests the DVD drive physically being broken, how the heck do you confirm that when Windows can see it and says it's operating just fine?

• Answer:

  Try booting from that drive. Insert a bootable CD (like the Windows installation CD, for instance) and try to boot from it. That should take Windows out of the equation. FWIW, the DVD writer in my laptop exhibited this behavior (would not recognize discs, would not boot from the drive) and I considered it physically broken.