DVD burners lost their fire?

[David]

I am using XP SP2 Home and 2 DVD burners, a Memorex +/-RW X1 dual
layer, and a Sony RW DW D22A. These are shown in Device Manager as
working correctly. Nero Express software came with the Sony burner. I
am trying to make a data disk, back-up photos, seems simple but...

Ulead Express sees the Sony drive as a CD recorder. If I put a new CD
in the Sony the burn process seems to go okay, and there's a message,
"Burn completed" However nothing is recorded. The same thing happens
with a DVD disk in the Memorex drive. Everything seems fine except
that the disk remains pristine and blank. When I try using Windows
Explorer to drag files to the drives I get an error message:
"Windows encountered a problem when trying to copy this file. What do
you want to do?" The only option is Retry or Cancell.

I have tried uninstalling the drives in Device Manager, physically
un-plugging them and re-booting, then plugged them in one at a time
and rebooting. Device Manager says there's no problem. I don't have
another machine that I can plug these drives into. They both worked
fine the last time I tried to burn a few months ago and it seems
highly unlikely that they've both gone belly up at the same time. Any
suggestions?

David

 

[Rich Barry]

David, you could try going back into Device Manager>IDE/ATAPI
Controllers>Uninstall the one that has the drives
connected to it either Primary or Secondary. Restart.

 

[Guest]

Hmmmm! This mb has 4 IDE/ATAPI controllers, takes 8 drives. Problem is it is
about 4 years old & I don't know which drive is attached to which controller.
Device Manager doesn't specify the drives either. Maybe I'll have to go
looking for the mb data to find out which socket is which.

David

 

[MAP]

I am using XP SP2 Home and 2 DVD burners, a Memorex +/-RW X1 dual
layer, and a Sony RW DW D22A. These are shown in Device Manager as
working correctly. Nero Express software came with the Sony burner. I
am trying to make a data disk, back-up photos, seems simple but...

Ulead Express sees the Sony drive as a CD recorder. If I put a new CD
in the Sony the burn process seems to go okay, and there's a message,
"Burn completed" However nothing is recorded. The same thing happens
with a DVD disk in the Memorex drive. Everything seems fine except
that the disk remains pristine and blank. When I try using Windows
Explorer to drag files to the drives I get an error message:
"Windows encountered a problem when trying to copy this file. What do
you want to do?" The only option is Retry or Cancell.

I have tried uninstalling the drives in Device Manager, physically
un-plugging them and re-booting, then plugged them in one at a time
and rebooting. Device Manager says there's no problem. I don't have
another machine that I can plug these drives into. They both worked
fine the last time I tried to burn a few months ago and it seems
highly unlikely that they've both gone belly up at the same time. Any
suggestions?

David

Hi, be sure that Nero is not set to for "similation" and the "write" box has
a check in it. You will find these options by clicking the "more tab" in
Nero on the page just before you burn. (the page that has what drive to use
and burn write speed on it).

When I try using Windows
Explorer to drag files to the drives I get an error message:
"Windows encountered a problem when trying to copy this file.

For this to work be sure that under the drives "properties" the recording
tab is checked,only one drive can be checked at a time(when using Nero this
does not need to be checked). Also this won't work with a DVD.
Good luck.