Martini Lover Posted October 30, 2003 Posted October 30, 2003 I have a laptop with XP Home, with a DVD/CD writer that all of a sudden doesn't recognize a blank cd. When I put one in the drive it (windows XP) opens and asks what I would like to do. Nice and easy. I like that.If I try to copy any data/music to a cd it asks for the file, copies it to a temp directory, and then asks for me to insert a "blank" cd. No matter how many times I try, it just spins and asks again. It will play my DVDs, play my CDs and install programs off CDs, and will read old ones that I recorded on this device.Is there any way of checking whether it is the machine, or software. I am sure I have some CD recording software around here that came with other machines that I could install, but if it is something like a box unchecked that should be checked installing software probably won't correct it.I have checked the properties in system devices and things look right to me.I do like the way XP handled it before, it was easy. Quote
Martini Lover Posted October 30, 2003 Author Posted October 30, 2003 I will get some today.It has been suggested to me to delete the player from the device menu and reboot, letting divice manager reload the drivers. Am I getting in trouble do this? Quote
Gus K Posted October 30, 2003 Posted October 30, 2003 Have you installed/uninstalled or added anything to your rig right before this started happening? Did you do any registry cleaning? Have you tried System Restore? Are you using a burning app or XPs native burner? Quote
Martini Lover Posted October 30, 2003 Author Posted October 30, 2003 Yes, BUT........ about six weeks ago (Sept 18, 2003 I had a Backdoor trojan and had to clear my restore to remove the virus.I am using the XP burning software, and the last time I remember burning a disc was longer ago than cleaning out the restore items. And.........I am always adding and subtracting programs. Latest was MS Office 2003. Quote
Gus K Posted October 30, 2003 Posted October 30, 2003 Try this:http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_...Q_20655859.html Quote
Martini Lover Posted October 31, 2003 Author Posted October 31, 2003 Well, I tried everything on the list and it didn't go.Uninstalled dvd/cd player and restarted.Went throught the properties stuff.Checked IMAPI and restarted.The link really sounded like me too.Hopefully someone will get some more ideas. Thanks for the effort Quote
zlim Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Did you check the links in this thread http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...t=ST&f=3&t=3732 ?I also read recently that Mandrake 9.2 kills the firmware for CDs. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/33648.html Quote
Martini Lover Posted October 31, 2003 Author Posted October 31, 2003 My problem although a Burner Problem, is quite a bit different. Mine does everything but recognize a "blank cd".I will read the threads though, I think I would probably learn something that I don't know yet. (That is quite evident) Thanks Quote
Martini Lover Posted October 31, 2003 Author Posted October 31, 2003 UPDATE---found my one and only CD-RW and my machine writes to it. It does every thing that it is supposed to do. Now if it would only do this with CD-R's. AAAaaauuuugggggghhhh, it is driving me insane. I am glad I am not trying fix this while drinking a Martini. Quote
ikara Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 Sounds you are having a problem similar to me, I'm having it with a DVD. while I am looking around I will pick up anything I think might help you, I wish you luck.I have been able to get around my problem by adding another DVD unit which I found works fine.Why the original won't is a mystery. Quote
Martini Lover Posted November 24, 2003 Author Posted November 24, 2003 Well I gave up, and paid a tech to come out and fix it. Quote
ikara Posted November 24, 2003 Posted November 24, 2003 OK, if you can let us all know what the tech does to fix your problem? Quote
Martini Lover Posted November 25, 2003 Author Posted November 25, 2003 He tried many different things, saying it was software problem. I think it finally turned out to be a "autoplay" problem. $40 bucks for an expert...........cheap. Quote
Gus K Posted November 25, 2003 Posted November 25, 2003 For Auto Play problems, this can help.http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBN/tip6900/rh6952.htm Quote
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