blank disc not reading in drive

When i try to burn a cd the drive is not reading blank disc.
Its fine on all other discs.
any ideas ?

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:35:01 -0800, "zola 25" zola
wrote:

When i try to burn a cd the drive is not reading blank disc.
Its fine on all other discs.
any ideas ?

Make sure its a cd disc.


Have a nice one...

Trent

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Format the CD if you are trying to directly save to the CD. You will also
need packet writing software such as Nero "INCD" or Roxio "Drag to Disk".

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Richard Urban

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If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"zola 25" zola wrote in message
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When i try to burn a cd the drive is not reading blank disc.
Its fine on all other discs.
any ideas ?

Short on info here. Exactly what program cannot read the disc? Windows
explorer cannot see blank discs.

"zola 25" zola wrote in message
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When i try to burn a cd the drive is not reading blank disc.
Its fine on all other discs.
any ideas ?

zola 25 wrote:

When i try to burn a cd the drive is not reading blank disc.
Its fine on all other discs.
any ideas ?

When you insert a blank cd, the drive attempts to read the ATIP
(Absolute Time In Pre-groove), which contains important information
about the disc, e.g. capacity and supported write speeds.

The ATIP is stored at the very inner edge of the disc, so the laser head
has to move to the extreme end of it's travel to read the ATIP. It's not
uncommon for old grease and dust to accumulate at the ends of the guide
rails and cause the drive to have problems reading the ATIP.

I have repaired several CD writers with your symptoms by opening the
drive, cleaning the guide rails with isopropyl alcohol on a q-tip, and
re-lubricating them with a *tiny* amount of white lithium grease. In one
case I also had to shave about 1mm off the rubber bump-stop to allow the
laser head to travel a little further to access the ATIP.

Sunny