Cannot burn CD's using ANY program!?

[bigbossfan80]

All of a sudden, I am no longer able to burn any CD's at all. It
doesn't matter what program I use, be it Nero, Adaptec, Windows Media
Player, Deep Burner, etc. NOTHING WILL WORK!

They all will just stop before the "Lead-In" is even written and just
state "WRITE ERROR" or "WRITER ERROR". WMP gives a little more info
by giving the error 0xC00D11AB, but I've Googled this to death and no
one has any answers other then to try a different burning program,
such as Nero, which I obviously have done already.

Does anyone know what the heck is going on here? It is very
frustrating, especially since it just happened over night.

THANKS!

 

[John Thomas Smith]

All of a sudden, I am no longer able to burn any CD's at all. It
frustrating, especially since it just happened over night.

Have you tried replacing the drive? Hardware DOES malfunction

John Thomas Smith
http://www.direct2usales.com
http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith

 

[Guest]

C00D11AB: Cannot burn files to CD
Windows Media Player cannot burn (copy) the selected files to the CD. To fix
the problem, do one or more of the following:
Clean the disc and verify that it is not damaged.
Select a slower recording (write) speed for the CD burner (recorder).
Try a different brand of blank discs.
Quit other programs.

To select a slower recording speed
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Devices tab.
In Devices, double-click the name of the CD burner (recorder), and then
click the Recording tab.
In the write-speed list, select a slower speed.

 

[deanbrnz]

Yes, I'm aware of those stupid fixes that Windows Media Player gives
for that error message, but none of them are useful or actually fix the
problem.

And Hardware malfunctions are normally gradual are they not? The
burner was working at night, I go to bed, wake up, and now it doesn't
work!?? So having the drive just sitting their doing nothing and
idling for 8 hours somehow caused it to malfuntion? That doesn't
appear to make much sense...

 

[no one]

Yes, I'm aware of those stupid fixes that Windows Media Player gives
for that error message, but none of them are useful or actually fix the
problem.

And Hardware malfunctions are normally gradual are they not?

NO!

Hardware failure is Right Now !!!
products that are Electronic Either work or they donnot work..

Mechanical product useully Go out Gradually.

U can get Cd-rw drive for $19.00 Now !!



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[deanbrnz]

Then EXPLAIN to me how it goes bad while not in use? Instead of just
saying they DO go bad while basically being shut off, EXPLAIN how!?
Are do you really not know what you are talking about?

Everything goes bad for a reason, right? So what's the reason?

 

[David Glass]

Then EXPLAIN to me how it goes bad while not in use? Instead of just
saying they DO go bad while basically being shut off, EXPLAIN how!?
Are do you really not know what you are talking about?

Everything goes bad for a reason, right? So what's the reason?

Was the drive actually *off*? Which means really, was the PC off?

A power fluctuation could have burnt out a capacitor, or a resistor, or
any of the other miniscule electronic components that make up a CD
drive.

Any one of those previously mentioned components could have simply
reached its end of life; electronic components wear out just like
mechanical ones do.

 

[deanbrnz]

Well whatever it just seems unlikely...the drive is not even 1 year
old...and I've only burned maybe 30 CD's and 10 DVD's with it since
I've owned it...so that doesn't SEEM right...it's a BenQ DW822A

 

[David Glass]

Well whatever it just seems unlikely...the drive is not even 1 year
old...and I've only burned maybe 30 CD's and 10 DVD's with it since
I've owned it...so that doesn't SEEM right...it's a BenQ DW822A

Unlikely, yes. Unheard of, no. The reason manufacturers give their
devices a MEAN time before failure is to cover the majority of their
produced units. There will always be 'fliers' that fall outside of the
mean; it sounds like you may have gotten one.

An easy way to test would be to go buy a new drive from someplace with
a good return policy. Put the new drive in. If it works your problem
is solved, if not there is something else wrong with your system.

 

[Don Burnette]

Then EXPLAIN to me how it goes bad while not in use? Instead of just
saying they DO go bad while basically being shut off, EXPLAIN how!?
Are do you really not know what you are talking about?

Everything goes bad for a reason, right? So what's the reason?

Really shouldn't shoot the messenger.

Get another drive, if it fixes it , then that's what it was, if it doesn't,
then you have another problem.

 

[Dr. C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T]

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Hi Dean,

I also can atest that drives can die immediately. My HP Pavilion
zd7010us laptop has a CDRW/DVD and I was using it to backup my data.
It worked fine. I shut down for the night then remembered a little
later that evening that there were some files I didn't backup. I
turned it back on and it would not write to any CDRW. It wrote to
CDRs no problem, but I could neither erase or save files to a CDRW.
I played with it for a couple of months with no success. I even
bought a small hard disk and did a clean install from the original
disk. No CDRW. I sent it in to HP, and they replaced the drive. I
put back in my original disk and it recorded a CDRW no problem. It
is now a month later and I have burned about 2 dozen CDRWs with no
problem.

I understand you wanting to know why it stopped working . . . but in
this day and gave repair depots do not fix drives they run a
diagnostic and if it fails they replace it.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
He esteems too lightly

Well whatever it just seems unlikely...the drive is not even 1 year
old...and I've only burned maybe 30 CD's and 10 DVD's with it since
I've owned it...so that doesn't SEEM right...it's a BenQ DW822A

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