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Old May 23rd 09, 09:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Joe Cool
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Default Erratic Behavior of CD/DVD Drives

Background Info: Dell Dimension 4700
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz
2.79GHz, 2.49 GB of RAM
D:\ Drive - Lite-On LTN 4865 48x Max (DVD/CD-ROM
Drives)
E:\ Drive - _NECDVD+-RW ND-3450A (DVD/CD-ROM

Drives)

I bought Roxio's Creator 10 when it was on sale and when I put their program
disc in the D:\ Drive it kept saying to insert a disc no matter how many
times I reinserted it. I discovered I could use the E:\ Drive to install it,
which I did. Also, when I tried to put miniDVDs from my camcorder (home
video) in the D:\ Drive to compile several on a standard Blank DVD in the E:\
Drive I got the same message and could never convert them to a standard DVD
+-R or RW disc.

After installing Creator 10 all of a sudden I couldn't completely burn CDs
and DVDs anymore, only partially. It kept saying to insert a blank disc even
though I had already inserted a blank disc in the E:\ Drive. After fooling
with it a lot sometimes it will finally recognize the blank disc and says
that it's ready to burn a CD. It goes through the whole burning process of
putting in the Table of Contents and showing that it's Writing Tracks 1
through 12 (or however many there are), then saying it's Closing The Disc,
then says "Finished" as though I've successfully burned the disc. When you
take the disc out you can see it is only burned from the inside out about a
half an inch and when you put it in a player it shows the total number of
tracks (12, for example) but it only plays about two to four tracks then just
sits there and spins or makes a shuffling noise because the other tracks
aren't really there.

When I try to burn a DVD it gets part of the way through the process then
tells me it has terminated because I wasn't using the right medium in the
recording drive (E:\ ) and to insert a blank disc like a DVD+R or DVD-R which
is exactly what I originally put in the drive in the first place. I have
gone through a half a dozen blank discs trying to see if it would work on at
least one of them and it still doesn't work. I don't know how many discs
I've thrown away because it never completes the process and the software
thinks I've used the wrong kind of blank disc.

I have Nero 6, Creator 7.5 and Creator 10 installed. I decided to uninstall
and reinstall my version # 10 again (and a third time) and see if it would
work or not. I downloaded a trial version of a software that runs tests on
all the drives in your computer and tells you if they are functioning or not.
After running this test it told me my D:\ and E:\ drives were functioning
properly. Also, Device Manager says they are both working properly. It may
be coincidence but all of this started after I downloaded Creator 10 then
uninstalled it and reinstalled two times and a third time.

Why won't it read the program disc in the D drive? Why won't it read the
small camcorder DVDs in the D drive? All it keeps saying is please insert a
disc, which I keep doing but it never recognizes one is in the drive. Why
does it apparently read a prerecroded CD in the D:\ Drive but won't
completely copy it to a blank disc in the
E:\ Drive? At first I thought something was wrong with the D:\ Drive, then
I thought something was wrong with the E:\ Drive. Now I'm wondering if
something isn't wrong with both drives.

Would the presence of several burning programs screw up the one you're
using? Even if the others weren't opened? I'm reluctant to remove two of
the programs and leave Creator 10 on my computer because the others having
Inserts/labels I haven't printed yet and I'm fearful all of them will go away
unless someone tells me they remain on my computer and I can print them even
without the program still being on the computer. I realize this is probably
overwheliming to a lot of you but it's certainly overwhelming me and all the
solutiions I've tried haven't worked.

Anyone??

Joe Cool
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