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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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