DVD burning

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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?
 
RonPhil said:
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?
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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)?
 
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.
 
Check the properties of your cdburner drives, there has been a spate of the
cd burning being disabled recently. within windows.
 
sgopus said:
Check the properties of your cdburner drives, there has been a spate of the
cd burning being disabled recently. within windows.
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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.
 
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.
 
sgopus said:
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.
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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.
 
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