Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Monday 16.2.2026 / 01:11
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   Pĺ svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > dvd±r discussion > dvd±r for newbies > dvd burner not registering blank discs! help!
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
DVD burner not registering blank discs! Help!
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
heathawk
Newbie
_ 		24. July 2006 @ 21:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Over a week ago I was ripping my cds onto my hard drive and the computer had problems with one disk because it was too scratched up. I noticed the next day that my DVD drive was running super slow. It read slow, and wrote slow. WAY slow. I did some digging and found out that sometimes, some kind of channels or something can be reset by reading a scratched disk, so I downloaded this program that resets the DMA status of all ATA drives with windows drivers. I don't really know what that means, but it did the trick. My burner was back up to speed.

However, it appears that it's not burning anthing at all. I'm currently backing up some new movies I got, and DVDShrink seems to be backing up the discs fine, but when I burn the disks with DVDecrypter, the discs don't show any sign of use at all. It goes through the normal burning process, but the discs don't work. Looking at them, you can't even see where they've been written on. And when I try to burn a DVD though Windows or Windows Media player, it doesn't recognize blank discs...

Is this a software or a hardware issue? Should I have it looked at? I don't know a whole lo about computers, but I'm not totally dumb, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
[ + quote]
Noqoilpi
Member
_ 		25. July 2006 @ 01:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Open Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > System > Hardware tab > Device manager > select the burner > right click on Properties > driver tab > uninstall > reboot.

Next time the DMA drops to PIO Open Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > System > Hardware tab > Device manager > select secondary IDE > right click on Properties > Advance settings > Transfer Mode > Change PIO to DMA

If you want a shortcut right click on the Desktop > New > select Shortcut.

Enter lactation C:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc

[ + quote]
rbrock
Senior Member
_ 		25. July 2006 @ 12:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Also try burning data or music if that fails you could have a dead burner
[ + quote]
RBROCK
afterdawn.com > forums > dvd±r discussion > dvd±r for newbies > dvd burner not registering blank discs! help!
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2026 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork