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Toshiba laptop CD player

see if the drive spins the disk at all. check in device manager to see if the drive is seen ok & no exclamation mark in front of it. if the disk does not spin then the drive most likely died. try a burnt disk to see if it reads it. try a cd if the movie is on a dvd.