DVD burning

[RonPhil]

I've got a new problem with XP Media Edition and Adobe Premier Elements. I've
burnt literally dozens of DVDs. Now Premier is telling me it can't locate a
burner. I can't burn CD's either. The device manager says the devices are
fine. They'll play back, just won't burn. Any suggestions?

 

[PD43]

I've got a new problem with XP Media Edition and Adobe Premier Elements. I've
burnt literally dozens of DVDs. Now Premier is telling me it can't locate a
burner. I can't burn CD's either. The device manager says the devices are
fine. They'll play back, just won't burn. Any suggestions?

Drive might have died?

If you have a bootable CD (Windows XP CD will do), can you boot to it
on a system restart (requires a proper BIOS setting)?

 

[RonPhil]

Thanks for the suggestion but I don't have a bootable CD. This problem is
with both an internal CD burner and an external DVD burner. I've tried both
Premiere Elements and Iomega software. it's got to be in XP.

 

[sgopus]

Check the properties of your cdburner drives, there has been a spate of the
cd burning being disabled recently. within windows.

 

[ManyBeers]

Check the properties of your cdburner drives, there has been a spate of the
cd burning being disabled recently. within windows.

Thank you sgopus! About a week ago maybe a little more my laptops combo drive
stopped burning. It would read and copy but not burn. So i asked on Aumha
forums if anybody could help and one guy said maybe the drives writing laser
had failed. But he was wrong, i just checked the property sheet and somehow
the drives "Enable cd recording on this drive" checkbox was unchecked. It
works fine now. But i have no idea how that checkbox got unchecked. I even
went and bought an external cd/dvd burner.

 

[sgopus]

I'm not sure why this is happening, some MS update caused it to happen on my
machine, glad to hear it solved your issue.

 

[ManyBeers]

I'm not sure why this is happening, some MS update caused it to happen on my
machine, glad to hear it solved your issue.

Funny thing is i thought it was my fault. I was planning on dual booting my
laptop with my current XP install and Linux. I downloaded a LiveCD ISO of
PCLinuxOS
burned it to a cd and popped it in my laptop for a test run. After an
interminable amount of time it finally reached the The KDE desktop but
nothing worked not
even the shutdown button. So i was forced to shutdown my laptop via the
power button, which i did. After the power down i removed the PCLinx cd from
my cd drive and rebooted into Windows to download an Ubuntu Live cd and try
it.out.
But when i tried to burn the ISO i found out then that my drive no longer
would burn. Naturally i thought it was due to my having to do the "hard
shutdown" earlier. So i started troubleshooting the problem including
reinstalling the drivers for the drive but no luck. I'm pretty sure at this
time i also checked the property sheet for something amiss, but maybe i
didn't. Finally i posted my problem to Aumha forums and got the answer i
cited in my earlier post here., and based on
what i was told i went and bought an external burner. This though is not
all bad
since my laptops drive burned only cds and not dvds i now have a DVD burner.
Have a nice day.