The DVD drive seems to be working properly. The Win7 disk and the System Repair disk can be read by my laptop just fine. Also, I have used Hirens BootCD, Falconfours BootCD, and Windows Defender Offline CDs, all burned on my new laptop, in the DVD drive of the computer and the drive has not displayed any problems with them. Made an ISO of the Win7 disk, using this laptop, and tried booting from it on a USB drive. The result was the same as using the disk.