DVD drive read errors

Hi Everyone,

On my Win XP Pro SP3 computer , I have a Samsung DVD-Rom SD-616T drive,
with the latest firmware :F310 . My problem is that recently, the drive
won't read DVDs, but it will read Cd's just fine. But the drive will go back
and forth between reading DVDs or not. Right now it won't read DVDs at all.
I looked in computer management/event viewer/system , and saw about 16 of
these errors :

Details
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 7
Source: Cdrom
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.

Explanation
The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The
data might be missing

or corrupted.


User Action
Do one or all of the following:

Retry the operation.
Clean the physical hard drive.
Use newer media.



Version: 5.0
Component: System Event Log
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.

Explanation
The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The
data might be missing

or corrupted.


User Action
Do one or all of the following:

Retry the operation.
Clean the physical hard drive.
Use newer media.



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Now my question is , what is causing a bad block of memory ? And how can
that problem be fixed ?
Thanks.


--
your friend,
Larry

"leoliver" <leoliver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsAF95369-729F-4784-B754-19235DA8ECF8@microsoft.com...
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> On my Win XP Pro SP3 computer , I have a Samsung DVD-Rom SD-616T
> drive,
> with the latest firmware :F310 . My problem is that recently, the drive
> won't read DVDs, but it will read Cd's just fine. But the drive will go
> back
> and forth between reading DVDs or not. Right now it won't read DVDs at
> all.
> I looked in computer management/event viewer/system , and saw about 16 of
> these errors :
>
> Details
> Product: Windows Operating System
> ID: 7
> Source: Cdrom
> Version: 5.2
> Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
> Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
>
> Explanation
> The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The
> data might be missing
>
> or corrupted.
>
>

If the problem occurred after your updated the firmware, try going back to
the previous version.

Otherwise I'd probably not bother with it and just replace your DVD-rom

maybe it's time to get the DVD burner you wanted

"leoliver" <leoliver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsAF95369-729F-4784-B754-19235DA8ECF8@microsoft.com...
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> On my Win XP Pro SP3 computer , I have a Samsung DVD-Rom SD-616T
> drive,
> with the latest firmware :F310 . My problem is that recently, the drive
> won't read DVDs, but it will read Cd's just fine. But the drive will go
> back
> and forth between reading DVDs or not. Right now it won't read DVDs at
> all.
> I looked in computer management/event viewer/system , and saw about 16 of
> these errors :
>

The DVD laser is shot. Replace the drive.

try your DVD rom on another computer

"leoliver" <leoliver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsAF95369-729F-4784-B754-19235DA8ECF8@microsoft.com...
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> On my Win XP Pro SP3 computer , I have a Samsung DVD-Rom SD-616T drive,
> with the latest firmware :F310 . My problem is that recently, the drive
> won't read DVDs, but it will read Cd's just fine. But the drive will go back
> and forth between reading DVDs or not. Right now it won't read DVDs at all.
> I looked in computer management/event viewer/system , and saw about 16 of
> these errors :
>
> Details
> Product: Windows Operating System
> ID: 7
> Source: Cdrom
> Version: 5.2
> Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
> Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
>
> Explanation
> The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The
> data might be missing
>
> or corrupted.
>
>
> User Action
> Do one or all of the following:
>
> Retry the operation.
> Clean the physical hard drive.
> Use newer media.
>
>
>
> Version: 5.0
> Component: System Event Log
> Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
> Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
>
> Explanation
> The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The
> data might be missing
>
> or corrupted.
>
>
> User Action
> Do one or all of the following:
>
> Retry the operation.
> Clean the physical hard drive.
> Use newer media.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Now my question is , what is causing a bad block of memory ? And how can
> that problem be fixed ?
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> your friend,
> Larry