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Problem with disc burning in cdrw/dvd drive
I have a new machine, (running xp home sp1a) inside of which is a
combo-52X16C (that's all the info there is on it, no brand or anything) the first week it was writing fine but on high speeds could wreck discs so I set it to 16x and it seemed okay. then it stopped burning cheap silver discs, but that's also fine... I didn't use it for a few weeks due to the machine itself being very unstable and while I was checking through some error logs I noticed a small mention of a bad block on cdr... i hadn't used the drive for a while so I put in a blank and tried... nothing... then I put in a used cdrw... nothing. Basically it will read any disc which already has content but not blanks. If I try to burn it waits until i say burn then says the drive is empty. The recording tab is present and I'm at a loss. I've uninstalled and allowed windows to install drivers again, nothing. I also tried looking at the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives which i spotted on the net but when I get to the last part there is no 'drives' part. I'm pretty much at a loss after attempting many things, including using nero, inbuilt windows burner and mediaplayer (which I've never used before so i may have done that one wrong, but anyway it failed) -- Paul (If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?) ------------------------------------------------------ Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
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