I can't burn RW media

[YoshiSato]

I have a Optorite DvD+- DL RW drive. Lately I have been unable to burn any type of RW media. Be it CD-RWs or DvD RWs of different brands. Some times the burn would be "sucessful" but when trying to play the media I get bad skips or no data. Even when trying to do a quick erase on new media the process keeps running and running and never finishes.
I have not had any problems with normal +R media.
Should I just toss this drive and get a new on?

 

[sniperruff]

yeah sounds like the laser is going bad. had a lite-on CDRW that did the same. it was sad =(

 

[alanore]

You could try updating the firmware for your DVD-RW from the manfacutres website and see if that helps any. Although its unlikely

 

[YoshiSato]

I just bought a new DvD-RW drive(a nice one too does all Formats) anyways I'm still having the same issue. +Rs burn no problems at all but all RW media be it DvD+RW or CD-RW I either get failed burns or a "sucessful" burn but issues playing back(i'm using serveral different brands here, same issue).

I'm thinking it might be software but I have this issue with Itunes, Clone-DvD, Nero, so it can't be a softwrae issue. I'm using the standard plug and pray drivers.

What else could the problem be?

 

[YoshiSato]

any suggestions?

 

[YoshiSato]

No body?

 

[wpshooter]

Have you tested your computers memory & have you done a diagnostic of your hard drive(s) integrity ?

 

[YoshiSato]

What would that have to do with not being able to burn RWs?
I can burn Rs no problem.

 

[Bobthelost]

First thing is to ask what media you are using, budget media is an utter waste of time, money and effort. Before you blame the drive buy 5 verbatim discs or TY discs and try them.

Also download Nero CD speed (not releated to nero burning app as far as i can tell) and do a quality scan on the disc.

For better advice than you'll get here go to http://www.cdfreaks.com

 

[YoshiSato]

I have never considered memorex "budget" or cheap media. I've been using this stuff for over 5 years(I just but a new pack of RWs last week) No problems until now.

BTW, I just burned a MP3 CDRW with Itunes ran CD Speed 100% bad.
I did a full erase burined a Audo CDRW(used a non used CDRW disk) 100% damaged.
Both from my new Drive.

This is driving me crazy

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
First thing is to ask what media you are using, budget media is an utter waste of time, money and effort. Before you blame the drive buy 5 verbatim discs or TY discs and try them.

Also download Nero CD speed (not releated to nero burning app as far as i can tell) and do a quality scan on the disc.

For better advice than you'll get here go to http://www.cdfreaks.com

While I don't think memorex is bad media either, I would agree with trying a different brand just to make sure.

 

[V00D00]

So you had a drive. It sucked on RW media.
You bought a new drive. And you're having the same problem?

Maybe your old drive killed your RW media. That could be a possibility, albeit remote.

Is DMA enabled? I don't think would have anything to do with it, but it should be enabled.

When was the last time you reformatted? Sometimes weird things just gunk up a system and make these strange errors happen. When all else fails, I just reformat. It takes an hour (or in my case about 2 minutes with Ghost) and you end up wasting less time with all the troubleshooting. And less wasted media as in your case.

 

[YoshiSato]

Would turning off the XP native CD buring support thingy cause this type of problem?
Althought I don't see why that would have an effect on apps like Itunes or Nero, they use their own drivers.