CD-R / DVD-R problems - please help...

[Nate C.]

Hi,

I'm running Win2K and have both a Pioneer A06 DVD burner and a Lite-On 52x
CD burner that are giving me trouble. The Lite-On is probably about 9
months old but the Pioneer was installed less than a week ago and that's
when the problems started. Neither drive will read a data disc that I have
burned, regardless of which burner, even my burner at work. I keep getting
the "Please insert a disk into drive" error when I select a disc drive to
explore. However, both drives will read commercially pressed discs, and one
odd thing is that if I run Nero Express to add to a previously unfinished
project, I can see the files previously burned onto the disc in the 'disc
content' window.

I'm wondering if it's possible that by coincidence the Lite-On went bad AND
I received a bad DVD burner at the exact same time, or could there be some
possible software-related explaination for this?

I'll be happy to provide more clues if it'd help anyone to help me.

Thanks so much,
Nate

 

[DaveW]

Are you by any chance using more than one CD/DVD burning program? Nero will
not work with other burning software installed.

 

[billy_bat]

Hi,

I'm running Win2K and have both a Pioneer A06 DVD burner and a Lite-On 52x
CD burner that are giving me trouble. The Lite-On is probably about 9
months old but the Pioneer was installed less than a week ago and that's
when the problems started. Neither drive will read a data disc that I have
burned, regardless of which burner, even my burner at work. I keep getting
the "Please insert a disk into drive" error when I select a disc drive to
explore. However, both drives will read commercially pressed discs, and one
odd thing is that if I run Nero Express to add to a previously unfinished
project, I can see the files previously burned onto the disc in the 'disc
content' window.

I'm wondering if it's possible that by coincidence the Lite-On went bad AND
I received a bad DVD burner at the exact same time, or could there be some
possible software-related explaination for this?

I'll be happy to provide more clues if it'd help anyone to help me.

Thanks so much,
Nate

Try changing slave/master configuration. I had a similar problem once after
changing to a new case and motherboard. That was with a CDRW and a DVD
drive.

 

[Nate C.]

Are you by any chance using more than one CD/DVD burning program? Nero will
not work with other burning software installed.

Thanks for the suggestion. Your answer helped me to figure it out - it
turns out that the DVD software that came bundled had this program that
detects when a blank DVD is inserted then autostarts the burning program. I
uninstalled that and it fixed the problem.

Thanks again,
Nate

 

[Nate C.]

Try changing slave/master configuration. I had a similar problem once after
changing to a new case and motherboard. That was with a CDRW and a DVD
drive.

Thanks for the help. It turns out that it was something else (see above),
but this is a good idea for future diagnostics.

Take care,
Nate