CD Drive won't burn

[Guest]

Ok, about three weeks ago my CD-RW drive stopped working. It was OE, and
finally died on me. It would read discs, but only so well when it did, and
wouldn't burn in any of my 6 available programs. So I broke down and decided
to buy a new HP CD-RW drive. After using it for just reading music cd's and
playing games, I tried to burn a CD. But it failed. All of the programs
said the same thing they were saying before. When I replaced the original
drive, I replaced the ribbon cable.

And in the CD Drive properties tab, there is a recording tab, and recording
is allowed for that drive. Also, the speed is set as low as possible. It's
on DMA mode, the registry key is set right, and there are no conflicts in
device manager. What could be causing it to not burn?

 

[Galen]

In Hhspaladin <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Ok, about three weeks ago my CD-RW drive stopped working. It was OE,
and finally died on me. It would read discs, but only so well when
it did, and wouldn't burn in any of my 6 available programs. So I
broke down and decided to buy a new HP CD-RW drive. After using it
for just reading music cd's and playing games, I tried to burn a CD.
But it failed. All of the programs said the same thing they were
saying before. When I replaced the original drive, I replaced the
ribbon cable.

And in the CD Drive properties tab, there is a recording tab, and
recording is allowed for that drive. Also, the speed is set as low
as possible. It's on DMA mode, the registry key is set right, and
there are no conflicts in device manager. What could be causing it
to not burn?

I would suspect corrupted upperfilters and lowerfilters entries. Follow the
directions here though it's usually for missing CD/DVD drives and see if
that does the trick?

Missing CD/DVD Drives:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/missing_CD-DVD_drives.html


--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your idea, but unfortunately it didn't work. I deleted both of
the keys, and it still won't burn. Any more ideas?

 

[Galen]

In Hhspaladin <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Thank you for your idea, but unfortunately it didn't work. I deleted
both of the keys, and it still won't burn. Any more ideas?

Odds are that you didn't have a CD player die and then have a new one come
broken but, well, can you try it in another system?

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[ms]

In Hhspaladin <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


Odds are that you didn't have a CD player die and then have a new one come
broken but, well, can you try it in another system?

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

Just out of curiosity were they Sony music CDs.

I recall reading that they put some malware to prevent users making audio
CDs.

If nothing else works try that area.

 

[Guest]

Well, an odd course of events indeed. My burner hasn't worked in a while,
despite replacement, for no type of burning application. Well, two days ago
I successfully burned a data CD. It was accessible in any computer, and had
no problems. So I tried to burn an audio CD, and it failed. Then, I tried
to burn another data CD with the same program, and it failed. So it burned
one time, then failed the rest, and I didn't play with any settings or
anything. It's odd!