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computer won't burn cds

Postby Mr. Rogers » Mon May 23, 2005 3:23 pm

i have 2 cd-rw drives on my computer and none of them will burn anything. they did before, but now they suddenly don't work. what would you suggest? i think i already tried reinstalling the drivers.
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Postby Arnobius » Mon May 23, 2005 3:59 pm

sldr4Christ1985 wrote:i have 2 cd-rw drives on my computer and none of them will burn anything. they did before, but now they suddenly don't work. what would you suggest? i think i already tried reinstalling the drivers.

Had that problem with a burner. Ultimately had to send it to HP for a replacement burner.

If you have PC Doctor, you may want to run it and see if you get any error messages...
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Mon May 23, 2005 4:31 pm

what burner program do you use?
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Postby Sephiroth » Mon May 23, 2005 4:47 pm

one of my friends had that problem with nero a couple of months ago, i dunno if he managed to fix it
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Mon May 23, 2005 5:37 pm

i use nero... and nero totally rocks

http://ww2.nero.com/enu/index.html

you can use the demo here

and uh... you can buy the cd key..

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Postby Sync » Mon May 23, 2005 5:38 pm

look around for new firmware for either drive and maybe upgrade or install a new program to burn discs (like from nero to Alcohol 120%).
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Postby Mr. Rogers » Mon May 23, 2005 6:06 pm

i was just using XP pro to burn
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Mon May 23, 2005 7:00 pm

sldr4Christ1985 wrote:i was just using XP pro to burn


there's your problem... that thing never worked for me...
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Postby Arnobius » Mon May 23, 2005 7:17 pm

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:there's your problem... that thing never worked for me...

It works. If the CD drive won't burn, it's probably not Win.

Did you do a system restore to an earlier point?
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Postby Mr. Rogers » Mon May 23, 2005 8:17 pm

i never use system restore. maybe ill try nero
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Postby Arnobius » Mon May 23, 2005 8:25 pm

sldr4Christ1985 wrote:i never use system restore. maybe ill try nero

I make restore points all the time. When something goes screwy, that's the problem half the time and you just roll unseen changes back...

Remember that's quite DIFFERENT than System *Recovery* (which should only be a last resort...)
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