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Won't burn a DVD

17 years ago

Sorry, I forgot to include this.

EV91510A.04T.0022

Asset Tag: P1690000000011D9D143B475DDAE

Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

16 kilobyte primary memory cache

1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel Corporation D915GAG AAC88910-302

Bus Clock: 200 megahertz

BIOS: Intel Corp. EV91510A.04T.0062.2005.0811.0305 08/11/2005 Drives Memory Modules c,d 194.67 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

88.05 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148A

SONY DVD RW DW-D22A [CD-ROM drive]

Sony CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2

Sony MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1

Sony SD/MMC Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4

Sony SM/xD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3

ST3200822AS [Hard drive] (200.05 GB) -- drive 0 504 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'J6G1' has 256 MB

Slot 'J6G2' is Empty

Slot 'J6H1' has 256 MB

Slot 'J6H2' is Empty Local Drive Volumes

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Comments (12)

genes
17 years ago
How old is the drive??? You could try cleaning the laser eye with a cotton Qtip but its also quite possible that the drive is on it way out the door. Replacement drives are pretty cheap these days
genes
17 years ago
Oh yeah, no need to double post either. Just add addition posts your your first one by slightly changing the subject line
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coho
Original Author
17 years ago
My drive 3 yrs old. Wife's is 1 year old.
owbist
17 years ago
What program are you using to burn these normally?

If all else fails I would simply re-install the software over itself. If you wish you could go to the Add/Remove window and remove the program first. Perhaps there is/are corrupt file/s there.
camp56
17 years ago
Since this is occurring on two different computers, and appears to have happened about the same time, it sounds as though you may have gotten some defective DVDs.
coho
Original Author
17 years ago
owbist,
This was done several times previously, but did again. Still displays No CD in Drive when DVD is in drive. It will burn a CD when I put a CD in drive and tell it to burn CD

camp,
I am useing same two stacks of DVDs as worked previously.
camp56
17 years ago
Coho, it just seems strange that both of your computers would have this problem at the same time, and since the CDs work ok it just seems to point to the DVDs as the problem. I have found that some of the blank cheaper brands of DVDs do seem to have a higher failure rate when they get older. I no longer store anything that I want to keep only on DVDs, but make sure I have copies on external hard drives.
coho
Original Author
17 years ago
"Coho, it just seems strange that both of your computers would have this problem at the same time, and since the CDs work ok it just seems to point to the DVDs as the problem. I have found that some of the blank cheaper brands of DVDs do seem to have a higher failure rate when they get older. I no longer store anything that I want to keep only on DVDs, but make sure I have copies on external hard drives."
As do I. I would much rather send a DVD to Alaska family than my external drve. Guess will reinstall Windows in about 2 weeks unless someone comes up with a better way.
Thanks
zep516
17 years ago
The only thing related to the two computers would be a possible windows update type thing, kind of strange......
randy_ca
17 years ago
You can go to Device Manager and uninstall the Sony DVD-RW.
The next time you bootup, Windows will find new hardware and reinstall the drivers.
coho
Original Author
17 years ago
Randy,
It has been uninstalled several times includeing yesterday. Thanks
puzzlefan
17 years ago
I've come across this on several computers, all from different reasons. The DVD's can be one problem. settings are another thing to look at. One I worked on had two cd/dvd drives. The person using Nero never checked to see if the burner she had the blank in was also the one showing at the top. Reloading install software sometimes helps. On one pc, I had to physically disconnect the dvd, reboot, check device manager to make sure it didn't show up, shut down, reconnected, and it worked fine. Why I have no idea.

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