My external DVD burning drive was working fine the other day as a matter of fact I had burned 3 DVD's but when I tried to burn the 4th one my computer still detected the burning drive but my burning program (ImgBurn) didn't detect the DVD media. Does this sound like maybe the laser went bad in the drive.
View 4 RepliesAfter I installed SP1 today, all third party burning software will not recognize my DVD drive as a burning drive. I can only burn from the embedded windows burning software.
View 5 Replies View RelatedInstalling vista x64 took 3 days (unbelievable really!) - and clearly had problems reading / extracting the files from the DVD drive. Vista works completely fine now (normal speed, no bugs-of-significance, with one major exception: The optical drive does not work correctly) The drive is recognised correctly in device manager, there are no reported errors and the drive appears correctly in explorer.
Insert a disc, and the drive sounds like it is struggling to spin up correctly. Explorer takes about 2 minutes to read the volume in. Succeeds, gives the volume name and launches autoplay with the appropriate options (video for a DVD, slideshow for a cd of photos etc. . . ) Try to open to browse the disc, or run a file and the application hangs (e.g. try to browse with explorer, and explorer hangs; try to play a DVD and media player / centre hangs etc.). Killing the programme with task-manager usually works - eventually. The drive has the most recent firmware.
The real kicker is that I've tried two drives in the same machine, with the same error. I've tried the same drives in another (XP Pro) machine, and they work fine. I've even tried installing XP-Pro on the problem machine, and under XP-Pro, the drives work fine. The only thing I can think of is that is there is some kind of compatability issue between the motherboard and Vista x64 - which would affect the optical drive. That said, I have 2x Samsung Spinpoint SATA II drives installed on two other ports, and they work like lightning.
I am trying to make an audio CD. Using CDburnerXP however it isnt' recognizing my burner. I have a HP notebook dv7 vista 64. I had previous troubles trying to burn movies. I am afraid I may have deleted something I shouldn't have. Does anyone know how I can get the drive to become recognizable? Is there drivers I need to go back and download?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am using an audio editor called WaveLab Essential 6. When I create a CD Montage of songs and try to WRITE to CD, it opens up the WRITE CD dialogue box and shows my device as Optiarc DVD/RW AD-7580A. Everything seems fine until I choose to WRITE. At that point, it shows that the CD creation progress is 100% and says that the CD was created successfully. The elapsed time shows 5 seconds and Saved Data shows 52.12 MB (5'9'' of audio). The real problem here is that the CD is still blank and nothing was recorded on it. Can anyone recommend a solution to get this CD Burner to actually write? It works fine in Media Player. I am using Windows Vista, Intel Pentium Dual Core, 3 Gigs, the CD drive is listed above.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI bought a new ASUS M51SN laptop last month running Windows Vista. I have subsequently loaded MS Office 2003, Skype, Norton SystemWorks and NERO8. I recently upgraded Vista with SP1, Nero, Skype and Norton to their latest versions and the ASUS Bios to 304. While I had a number of software problems prior to these upgrades, I placed my faith in the Vista upgrade, but am still left with a number of irritating problems.
My DVD burner has disappeared from Windows and Norton while Nero is still happy to test it (Diskspeed). The device manager says everything is good, but I cannot see the DVD in either Windows Explorer or My Computer. In the event log, I can see that the unit has encountered a number of bad block events, as well as a number of errors during a paging operation...............
Does anyone have any information about a Lightscibe burner that will burn to CD+R, all I can find is CD-R burners. Preferably Sata link Seems to have beaten everyone. OK, How about any burner that will burn CD+R.?
View 6 Replies View Relatedwindows vista 64 recognizes my plextor 716a ide dvd rw in my computer but when I try to use any of the windows apps to burn something it says no burner detected. I tried deleting the filters and it still did not work.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a DVD burning software for Vista X64.?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI insert a blank DVD and the computer won't even recognize that there is a disk in the drive. I've used these blank DVD's to burn movies on several other computers, and those DVD's that have movies on them, from the exact same stack of blank DVD's open up and play the movie perfectly, it's only the blank DVD's that are not being recognized...... This is really frusterating.....
The device is a SONY CDRWDVD CRX3102 SCSI CdRom Device it will recognize blank CD's but not BLANK DVD's..... I swear I've burnt DVD's using this drive before, but now it's not working.... am I crazy? or just stupid? What am I doing wrong.
which dvd burner shud i use for vista. it does not allow nero 6 and also where from can i download it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am having problems with my burner in vista... I was using freeware software (burnaware) to burn dvd's and it was working fine the past 3 weeks... then my fiance downloaded vista updates and now the software, any of my software actually is giving me an error message that there is not supported burner detected. not really being computer savvy, what can I do to get this resolved?
View 4 Replies View RelatedMost posts want advice on how to resolve an issue with existing hardware or software. I'm asking for advice on what to buy to avoid any issues. I need a SATA DVD burner for my new x64 build. So far I just have the case, power supply, and processor. In my wish list is the RAM, MB, HD, and OS. Each has been verified to at least "work" with x64 Vista according to the MS compatibility list. Now I'm looking for a DVD burner that some of you existing x64 users have installed and like.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy 12 year old recently installed a Bamboo Art Tablet onto our computer, which also included Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, Corel painter Essentials 4.0 and Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0. Since then, my DVD/CD drive doesn't work and my thousands of color photos have changed to black & white and have lines running through them and are stretched out. Their thumbnails are in color and look fine, but when I open each picture, they're B&W w/lines and stretched out. I am completely computer illiterate. I don't know what regedit, upper/lower filters, registries, or drives are or mean, never mind how to fix/uninstall/reinstall them and I'm afraid I will completely break my computer. I've never been on a site like this; are we allowed to exchange e-mail addresses or telephone #'s? If someone is willing to talk me through this, I think I might be able to fix my computer.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am very frustrated with Vista, and considered rolling back to XP, but I really don't want to format my hd! I have a Gateway GT5656, with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core with 3GHZ, and 3 gb of ram. Anyway, I have a Sony and Optiarc DVD drives. The problem is they are very inconsistent! Seems after I put my PC to sleep, they don't work after that, until I reboot again, then they work great. Any ideas why this is happening?? I use my drives a lot, and it's very annoying to have to reboot the computer to get the drives to work! I have SP1 for Vista Home Premium, and have updated the drivers for the DVD drives.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have two SATA burners installed with Vista x64, they burn fine but burst rate is only 14 mb/s when it was 60 mb/s on XP Pro
Does anyone know what driver I might have installed that I shouldn't have or need to install?
This is a Asus P5K Deluxe P35 chipset board.
I have a compaq laptop - only had it a month! & have Vista Premium home edition. Things were great with it till last night - tried to burn an Audio CD using "Cyberlink Power2go" and error message "no burner available or you do not have access to the burner" appeared. Used this program before without any probs so thought it might be a problem with the disc, tried another got same message, so I stuck in an original DVD to see if it would read that OK.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI wanted to create a data cd with some files/programs on it that i got off the net and it wont let me. Is there any good free software to allow me to do this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am not computer-wise. I have brand new HP laptop with Vista Home Premium. I am new to Vista. I burned two DVDs that will play on my computers, but not on any stand-alone player. Exploring the discs, I see they are lacking the folder AUDIO_TS, which I thought was mandatory even though empty. 1. Am I right to infer that this is the problem? 2. How do I fix it? (I believe the discs were burned with Windows DVD Maker product version 6.0.6000.16386). 3. If this is the wrong tack to pursue, what questions should I be asking?
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs there a burner for burning my PowerPoint slides to DVD?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow can I burn a DVD using Vista because all the burners you buy have free software for XP but not Vista.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm using Vista Home Premium and over the past year have burned approx 100 DVDs without any problems using Roxio and Windows. I started having problems with burns being successful till finally every time I tried to burn a DVD it failed and I wasted a blank. The DVD drive itself works fine so I reformatted Windows in an attempt to remedy what I thought was a software problem to no avail. Every time I attempt to burn a DVD, no matter which method I try, the burn fails.
View 4 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know the fix for this? I have a 250MB flash drive from the same manufacturer that works without a problem on a Vista workstation. I also have a new 1.0GB USB2.0 flash drive from the same manufacturer that works on my XP Pro workstation but does not work on my Vista workstation.
I have tried to reinstall the driver and found no driver for a USB drive. There have been many posts on the net about this problem with a few suggestions for fixes, but none have worked. Apparently Vista is blocking this USB drive. We have several USB drives of the same type and they are all blocked. Go to an XP Pro machine, and they work perfectly. This must be a new security app that Microsoft has added without any documentation to support it. It doesn't even show up as an error in event viewer.
Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working properly. However, when I attempt to read, write, format a disk vista reports the the drive has no disk in it. I changed the drive.
View 8 Replies View Relatedive been busy for a while and havent used my computer for a while and now i started to use it again but when i try to put a cd in nothin happens u can only hear it spinnin and nothin and also when i click on dvd drive in my computer it says applicatin not found help plz im runnin windows vista home premium hp pavilion dv6700.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe CD/DVD drive used to work, but now doesn't. I don't know of anything changed since them. No drive is recognized and I can't open the drive once Vista takes over. I can open it while it's booting. I searched the forums and found something about deleting the upper and lower filters in the registry and followed that. My registry had three "Control Sets", ControlSet001, ControlSet003, and CurrentControlSet. I was able to delete the upper filters in sets 1 and 3, but there was no upper filter in CurrentControlSet. None had lower filters.
That slightly changed the problem. Previously the CD activity LED stayed off, but now it's always on. However, the drive still doesn't open, and nothing is recognized. I went to the device manager and I didn't see any optical drive. And one other interesting thing - When the laptop wakes up from screensaver, the CD/DVD drive starts spinning and won't stop. Still can't open the drive, and it's still not recognized.
First disclaimer... I'me really a network novice. I've used XXCOPY and Robocopy to successfully back up entire volumes to an eSATA connected drive, but when I try to do the same to a newly acquired NAS drive, it doesn't work right. Instead of copying "only" the files that are new (or changed since the last backup), Robocopy copies every file over again. And XXCOPY (free version) won't copy at all to the NAS drive. I downloaded the 60day trial of XXCOPY home, and it does work right, (except it recopies lots of zipped files) but XXCOPY home costs $40. Here's a typical command (from a batch file) for each: Robocopy E: \DLINKVolume_1E-BACKUP /MIR /R:1 /W:1 and xxcopy e: \dlinkvolume_1e-backup /clone/ff I also found RichCopy, which I tried, and find it also copies files that are already in place on the NAS drive. Could it be that I have a problem with the way I've set up the NAS? I'm probably overlooking something basic,
View 4 Replies View Relatedhave windows vista home premium..was able to burn cd's but tried to recently and a box above the place where you drag the titles, says connect a burner and restart.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi've had my pc for a year brand new, its windows vista and its always burned my cd's now when i try to burn, the message "connect a burner and restart player" pops up
View 5 Replies View RelatedWas working, now its not --- Why
View 4 Replies View RelatedBrand new Freeagent USB 1TB drive for Windows Home Premium on an ACER desktop. After installing the Seagate Manager software, it tells me that I need a 32-bit OS and will not install. The result is that there is a letter assigned to the drive but no hard drive icon. And the drive just stops working after a while. Unplugging it and plugging it back in makes it work again. Then my files vanish and it dies again. And so forth.
In post after post on this forum and others I've seen about this issue, everyone seems to offer a lot of assurances that external drives will work automatically on 64-bit. But they don't. From the Seagate website in the downloads section:
FreeAgent Family Software
File Version: FreeAgentCN.EXE
File Size for Windows.EXE: 63 MB
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista
Business, Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Home, XP Professional, XP Media Center Edition 32-bit Operating Systems ONLY. So should I get a new drive designed for this OS, and if so, which ones are they?