Last night I tried burning a data CD with Vista's built in burner by dragging and dropping into the blank CD. Vista claimed that the burn was successful but when I tried to play the CD later it didn't work. So now I'm trying to burn a new one but I'm having another problem, the drive won't read any blank CDs anymore.
I tried testing to see if it was the drive or not, but I don't think it is. I inserted Call of Duty 4 into the drive and it booted right away, then I tried Battlefield 2, since it's on CD rather than DVD, and same thing, booted up right away. Next I figured I'd try a movie, in goes Disturbia and it starts playing from where I left off. So I'm thinking, "Ok, maybe it's having issues with blank media" so in goes a blank DVD, it recognizes it and asks if I would like to burn anything to it. So I'm like what the heck? In goes the blank CD again and it doesn't boot. I try opening up Windows Media player and it just locks up on me. I try going into my computer to see if it's recognizing the disk, but it won't open unless I remove the disk from the drive.
I've tried doing a system restore to last week and that still didn't fix the problem either. My computer is less than 7 months old and I haven't had any problems with the drive up until now. Unfortunately I don't know the model number for the drive but I do know that it's an LG Dual-Layer DVD combo drive. If anyone can offer me some help for this it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
ok, sorry for the double post but I couldn't find an option to edit my other post. I tried using the disk that came with the drive to install Nero again but it wouldn't boot up, so I tried BF2 one more time and that wouldn't boot up either, so it's just not liking CDs anymore apparently... Any idea why? Or how I can go about fixing this problem without spending loads of cash on a new DVD drive?
