Hey guys, I've been having MAJOR problems with my CD-R/RW drive. I was trying to burn some music onto a disc, but any program I use says there is no disc in the drive. However, when I try to burn video files onto a CD, the process goes fine. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the drive itself, the computer, the program, or even the discs themselves. I need help!
Thanks,
Steel Drummer
No recommendations here, I just wanted to add that I have the same problem. It burns fine, I eject the CD and put it back in again and My Computer doesn't recognise the CD, even though I made sure to "finalise" session in the CD writing programme. Looking at the disc the data has obviously been recorded onto it. Take it to another computer and...well, it might work, it might not. It's bloody annoying ><
I'd replace the drive. It's obviously broken. I don't think it's a software issue.
Well just a few weeks ago, I burned some music onto a CD and it worked fine. Nothing on the computer has changed since then. No reformats, no drive changes. I don't know.
How long had you been using the drive? It's could be just that it had reached the end of its life, so, good bye to it in that case.
You may also try recording at lower speed.
Are you using those blue CD's? Because you shouldn't, they're inferior. If you've had the empty CD-ROMs for a long time they may likewse have deteroriated. Note that some CD players are obviously more fault-tolerant than others (in particular, older ones tend to be less so). So if you have a slightly faulty CD and a slightly faulty (or simply old) drive the combination may fail even if the CD plays elsewhere, or the drive plays other CDs.
Yeah, it could be faulty CD-Rs. I bought them quite a while ago. I'll try buying some new ones soon and see if that fixes it. Edit: I actually forgot to say this, but the drive can still burn avi, wmv, etc. files onto a CD-R fine, but it won't burn audio. I'll try a lower drive speed, but I don't know what else would be going wrong.
Okay, this is really weird (sorry for double posting, by the way); a few days ago, the drive suddenly recognizes CDs (but only CDs with stuff on them already). I bought some new CD-Rs, but they don't work. I think something is probably wrong with the drive.
Just buy a new drive. They are cheap enough now. Buy a DVD-RW, if you have the cash, i believe they are fairly cheap too. My computer already came with one.
edit: even though i have a cd burner and a dvd burner. I still use the dvd burner for both cd's and dvd's. It seems to be more reliable.
Try this...
Disconnect the drive from you PC and connect it back again.
Just get a new DVD writer, as people say they're very cheap. Mine even came with Nero OEM which is a great little program.