Recovery Discs won't Read

Tippernockey · October 2017

When I got the recovery discs for my laptop, I put the first one (System Disc 1 of 1), told it to boot from the optical drive, and it didn't even acnowledge the disc. After testing a few more things, I used a program on my good computer to make the disc into a bootable flashdrive and that actually worked! But now it asks for Recovery disc 1, and turning that disc into a flashdrive doesn't work (it doesn't acnkowledge the flashdrive and just keeps asking for disc 1), It also acts the same way when I try the actual disc.

My theory is that my optical drive is broken in some way, but I can't boot into any operating system to actually try any other discs.

So I guess my question is, do I have any options? I already spent money getting these discs and I would like to avoid spending more just to get an external optical drive. If there's some kind of trick that can get the flashdrive to work I'd gladly use it, but after searching the internet for nearly ten hours it feels hopeless.