cd drive problems

I've had my blu-ray drive since about Sept. I've watched movies on it a handful of times. Today I went to reinstall EAC to rip some new cds I just got in and after a very trying time to get it to install, my drive will not recognize DVDs anymore. I can play CDs and Blu-ray discs, but not DVDs. Also it started doing something weird yesterday and that was dropping my internet connection for about 5 seconds everytime I opened the tray with a movie in the drive.

I know it was EAC cause the drive read just fine before. I thought uninstalling would help, but it hasn't. Anyhelp short of just reformatting everything? :\

edit: I fixed the problem I just deleted. The current problem still stands where my drive won't read DVDs, and now blurays. I think somehow the drive got recognized as just a regular CD drive, as it won't even list it as a liteon drive.

How ya doing, buddy?

I recently reformatted to see if that would help and it looks like I'll have to get my discs to reinstall everything to see if that works. If not my drive is probably fucked and I'll have to get another. (Luckily it's under warranty and I still have the receipt for it).

But apparently it seems reformatting also caused me (somehow) to lose about 400GB from my harddrive (it was a 1.5 TB drive) as before I had 1.3 space free, but now only about 1 TB free with it saying 400 is in use... blah

There's nowhere I can't reach.

(C: )
1397.25 GB NTFS
Healthy (system)

then another area states: Capacity 1397.25 Free Space: 996.53GB 71% Free

I haven't installed shit I didn't have before the format (and nothing worth a 400GB size)

Unless that drive is failing now too...

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hmm. I ran that Spacemonger and there was a section that was listed "unscannable". I take it that's bad? How do I check that system volume.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I did that and still couldn't see what could be eating up the 400GB. =\ I don't think chkdsk came up with anything either. bleh

I was speaking idiomatically.