Recovering DVD- decoder

c_t_a2006c_t_a2006 The tip of lake Michigan
edited December 2006 in Science & Tech
I have a toshiba satillite A-105 with wireless that was originally running XP home (Vista compatible) with ATI graphics (Radeon xpress 200M series) and an intel Celeron M processor 1.46 GHZ, and 448 on my Ram

Ok, hear is the deal, not long ago I got a nasty worm that breezed by all of my safety nets like they were not even there, My only option was to re-install the OS but the only disk I had was for XP pro (and a stripped down version of that that I got from college free). Reformatted and partitioned The OS is running great except I can no longer play DVD's, I have lost my decoder during the install. I have all 1-9 recovery disks from the time I bought the puter but for the life of me can not get them to work. Turn off the puter restart hit C shuts my puter down, f-12 go to boot from cd, enter does nothing. Thought I would just install XP pro and then run recovery disks but they will not work. Please help!

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2006
    Let me get this right: You have Windows XP freshly installed, and everything except DVD playback is working correctly?

    If so, this great program called Media Player Classic, designed to be used instead of Windows Media player, has a wonderful decoder for DVDs built right into it.
  • c_t_a2006c_t_a2006 The tip of lake Michigan
    edited November 2006
    thanks, downloaded VLC media player and works fine. My main prob is that the recovery cd;s will not work, they have a lot of other progs and apps I would like to have back.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited November 2006
    If it's a Dell or something, you probably cannot use he recovery CD's anymore becuase you repartitioned your HDD and thus deleted the partition it set aside for various things the recovery CD's may use.
  • mmerrittmmerritt
    edited December 2006
    Im having a similar problem with my toshiba satellite. My dvd player was working fine a few days ago and now when i try to play any dvd i get a pop up that says i have no decoder. I don't know if i accidently deleted it or what but if any one has advice it would be greatly apperciated.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    You've got a PM, mmerritt. Welcome to Short-Media. :)
  • c_t_a2006c_t_a2006 The tip of lake Michigan
    edited December 2006
    mmerritt wrote:
    Im having a similar problem with my toshiba satellite. My dvd player was working fine a few days ago and now when i try to play any dvd i get a pop up that says i have no decoder. I don't know if i accidently deleted it or what but if any one has advice it would be greatly apperciated.


    Never did figure out the prob on my system with the decoder but as some one said to me since I reformatted and partitioned my hard drive by installing pro over home I may have killed the chance to run the recovery disks from Toshiba.
    Do not know how computer literate you are so do not take offense if I state the obvious. If you think you deleted it, Run system restore back to a point where your dvd's would play..........Try rolling back and updating your drivers............Try running your recovery disks....... If you have the install disk for your OS try booting from the disk and run upgrade or repair (this however did not work for me because I repartioned). Things to not try, TOSHIBA SUPPORT, They do nothing but make you pull your hair out.:grr: Do not trust downloading codecs/decoders from any websites that offer, SPYWARE HELL.
    I solved the problem so that I could play dvd's by downloading the vlc media player (suggested by another member). Works great and is very user friendly.
    Wish I could be more helpfull.
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