I actually got my old crappy laptop to read Wii discs with Friidump, which is an Italian ripping program. The other program (rawdump) did not work at all on that drive.
If your drive is in an HP laptop and its part number is HL-(anything), it might be able to read Wii games. Mine is a DVD-ROM/CD Burner. I can't say for DVD burners. My main PC's drive is also a DVD-ROM/CD Burner, but it can't do anything with Wii discs, it actually freezes explorer for awhile then just acts like there is not a disc in the drive.
Using Friidump, its main speed option made the drive read the game at something like 155MB per hour... and it crashed around 400 MB. Then i tried the -3 option, which is lower-level and should be "slower," but it reads 900MB/h... and it completes in about 5 hours.
***EDIT*** I do not know if Friidump works for GC games. I think I read somewhere that it does, but your ISO ends up being 4+GB because it thinks it's ripping a Wii game.
If your drive is in an HP laptop and its part number is HL-(anything), it might be able to read Wii games. Mine is a DVD-ROM/CD Burner. I can't say for DVD burners. My main PC's drive is also a DVD-ROM/CD Burner, but it can't do anything with Wii discs, it actually freezes explorer for awhile then just acts like there is not a disc in the drive.
Using Friidump, its main speed option made the drive read the game at something like 155MB per hour... and it crashed around 400 MB. Then i tried the -3 option, which is lower-level and should be "slower," but it reads 900MB/h... and it completes in about 5 hours.
***EDIT*** I do not know if Friidump works for GC games. I think I read somewhere that it does, but your ISO ends up being 4+GB because it thinks it's ripping a Wii game.