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#1 User is offline   Captjeff 

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Posted 22 February 2008 - 08:43 PM

My Toshiba Satellite came with a CD/DVD drive and RecordNow 7. It is 3 years old and burned CDs fine unto just recently. It would occasionally give me an error message about failing to burn and the problem was usually fixed by using a different blank CD. I thought the CD was the problem.

Now, it mostly will not burn but I keep trying and it eventually it works OK for a few CDs. Even the CDs it previously would not burn work OK. Toshiba says it may be the burn software is corrupted. Is this a possibility? Is it possible to download something that will fix this?

Any help will be appreciated.
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Posted 23 February 2008 - 04:45 AM

QUOTE (Captjeff @ Feb 22 2008, 11:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
My Toshiba Satellite came with a CD/DVD drive and RecordNow 7. It is 3 years old and burned CDs fine unto just recently. It would occasionally give me an error message about failing to burn and the problem was usually fixed by using a different blank CD. I thought the CD was the problem.

Now, it mostly will not burn but I keep trying and it eventually it works OK for a few CDs. Even the CDs it previously would not burn work OK. Toshiba says it may be the burn software is corrupted. Is this a possibility? Is it possible to download something that will fix this?

Any help will be appreciated.
Jeff


Try using the built in CD burning in XP and see if that works (use a CD-RW for testing).



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Posted 23 February 2008 - 05:31 AM

If you follow ogdens' suggestion and have the same problems, it oculd be a problem with the burner.

Altho if the burner has had a lot of use it's possible it's getting ready for its trip to that Great Recycling Bin in the sky, it could be dust on the lens. If so, a lens-cleaner CD will clean it off. It's best left as a last-ditch effort, since it some believe it has the potential to do damage itself, but it did revive a burner for me.

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 06:40 AM

QUOTE (lynn98109 @ Feb 23 2008, 07:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If you follow ogdens' suggestion and have the same problems, it oculd be a problem with the burner.

Altho if the burner has had a lot of use it's possible it's getting ready for its trip to that Great Recycling Bin in the sky, it could be dust on the lens. If so, a lens-cleaner CD will clean it off. It's best left as a last-ditch effort, since it some believe it has the potential to do damage itself, but it did revive a burner for me.

Lynn



The "some believe" are folks that make the drives! I don't think all of a sudden it got dirty. Read here.

"Toshiba says it may be the burn software is corrupted. Is this a possibility?" Yes but what could of caused that? Have you installed any Microsoft Updates lately? Any new software with burning capability?

I agree, try ogdens suggestion or #7 in my signature. If they burn fine it's your RecordNow 7 software.

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 06:56 AM

QUOTE (cdanteek @ Feb 23 2008, 06:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The "some believe" are folks that make the drives! I don't think all of a sudden it got dirty. Read here.

"Toshiba says it may be the burn software is corrupted. Is this a possibility?" Yes but what could of caused that? Have you installed any Microsoft Updates lately? Any new software with burning capability?

I agree, try ogdens suggestion or #7 in my signature. If they burn fine it's your RecordNow 7 software.

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It would occasionally give me an error message about failing to burn and the problem was usually fixed by using a different blank CD. I thought the CD was the problem.

Now, it mostly will not burn but I keep trying and it eventually it works OK for a few CDs. Even the CDs it previously would not burn work OK.
equals "all of a sudden".

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 07:44 AM

Thanks, folks for your prompt replies and ideas. I will try these out this weekend.
Also, I don't know if I made it clear or not but the CD drive reads CDs fine, it just wont burn them.
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Posted 23 February 2008 - 07:57 AM

P.S.--Ogdens: While I am not totally computer illiterate I am not a heavy duty user. How do I get to XP's cd burner?
Thanks,
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Posted 23 February 2008 - 08:01 AM

QUOTE (Captjeff @ Feb 23 2008, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
P.S.--Ogdens: While I am not totally computer illiterate I am not a heavy duty user. How do I get to XP's cd burner?
Thanks,
Jeff


Click on Start, then Help and Support in the search type in "make a cd" (without the quotes) and do some reading.

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Don't forget to use a CD-RW.


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Posted 23 February 2008 - 08:38 AM

Usually a CD drive can read discs long after it's become to weak to write them.

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 02:29 PM

Windows uses Windows drivers to read a CD.

If the Sonic software has been "corrupted somehow" then the drive will continue to read discs long after the software has become too corrupted to write them.

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Posted 24 February 2008 - 08:51 PM

Well, no luck. Trying to burn a cd in XP results in "D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function"

I downloaded ImgBurn and after going through all the steps I get "Optimum Power Calibration Failed. Power Calibration Area Error".

Apparently the driver for the burner (Matshita DVD+RAM UJ 8415) is native. DriverDetective found no updates.

That all being said, I tried it using a TDK CD-R because I dont have any CD-RW discs. Does this really make a difference?

My gut says the burner is bad but it has not had that much use and is only 2-3 years old.

Thanks in advance for your help.
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Posted 25 February 2008 - 11:15 AM

I had 2 drives in my machine and starting getting weird errors like that when I tried to burn with either drive.
I went and bought a new drive and Voila! the errors are gone and I'm happily burning again.
So you may think about replacing that drive.They're not that expensive and a new one could save you a bunch of time and effort.
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Posted 25 February 2008 - 11:18 AM

There is a small area on the disc for the program to check the calibration. If a drive is gong back, the checking of the calibration will fill it rather fast - I'd agree with Terry.

The reason RW discs were suggested is because if something doesn't work they can be erased and re-used. If you use R discs, you lose he disc every time it doesn't work.

But never use RW discs for anythig you want to KEEP long-term.

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