Dvd drive problem

[Dannyboyayyo]

I just recently reconnected it and i wasnt able to burn anything. then today i found the option to enable buring. so i managed to burn a CDR. then i figured i'd be able to finally erase my dvdrw but once i click erase dvd in nero the option to start was grayed out. i've no where near reached the limit of the dvdrw so i'm really confused on how to proceed :/

thanks for any help!

Also i dont think windows is reading the drive properly. when i click properties it says under recording tab "enable CD recording on this drive" nothing about dvds

 

[Dannyboyayyo]

so does anyone know why it wont erase any dvdrws?

 

[Yawgm0th]

Have you tried burning DVDs, or are you just having an issue erasing a DVD-RW? Did you originally burn the DVD on that drive? What version of Nero are you using?

 

[Dannyboyayyo]

i've only burned one cdr since it was the only disk i had that wasnt being used. This is the same DVD drive i've burned everything with. i'm using the latest version of nero 7.5.9.0 i also tried other programs but none of them allow me to erase the disk

 

[Yawgm0th]

Do you have access to another computer with a burner that you can attempt to erase the disc on? Why haven't you tried burning anymore DVDs on that burner? I wouldn't assume it were having problems with DVD just because it can't erase a single DVD-RW, especially if I hadn't even tried burning one.

As for the Windows setting in the property page you asked about earlier, that's for Windows' built-in CD burning. Windows does not have any built-in DVD burning.

 

[Yawgm0th]

Double-post due to forum error.

 

[Dannyboyayyo]

well i've had this burner for a while and used it a lot. Over the summer i had to take out some things in my computer and kinda forgot to plug the power back into the drive lol so i lived without it. recently i opened it up again and plugged it in. Ever since then i'm having annoying issue's. Its not just one dvdrw its all of them in my 25 pack. I was trying to think of who else has a dvdr drive i can try but no ones coming to mind ~.~

 

[Dannyboyayyo]

i cant even erase a cdrw wttfffff i can burn cdr fine.......

 

[Dannyboyayyo]

ok i figured it out. i just uninstalled daemon tools and alchohol120% and now its working fine

 

[Yawgm0th]

I figured it was a software issue. Generally you don't see a drive burn and read fine but then have issues erasing, but there are plenty of software issue related to erasing discs.

 

[Dannyboyayyo]

ya those software install something named SPTD and apparently causes a lot of issues for many ppl. I accidentally came across it and was like "what the hell might as well try" and it worked. I might try to reinstall daemon tools since the problem went away after I removed alchohol120%