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After 1000 burns - suddenly I can't burn ANYTHING - help?
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restart
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24. February 2005 @ 08:37 |
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To gdhaddad
If you've tried different media with the same results then before ruining all your dvds check with Phillips support first. If its a bad drive they'll allow you to send it in for repairs. But first see if you can write any data to it. Copy about 3 gigs of folders to the drive. If it fails, go to Phillips and explain that it fails to write the data. With only 3 weeks of use, you shouldn't have those kind of failures but they do occur.
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meash
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2. March 2005 @ 22:29 |
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Hello Tamula and other problem solvers..
I have the same problem as you, and i've been using up all my time for the last few weeks trying to fix it. All of a sudden, my burner stoped enabling me to burn .avi's - which i'd been doing happily for over a year. Unfortuately, the suggestion that a poster above gave us must be about right - we've worked our burners down to the bone :(
I deleted roxio (although there's still traces about that I can't get rid off..), and stuck on Nero, but it won't copy (and even if it would, for some reason, it makes out that the file is bigger than it can manage to burn..)
Anyway! What I was going to ask, was.. did your burner go wrong after updating with microsoft updates? I clicked on an update one day, and the next thing, the burner wouldn't work.. something fishy there maybe??
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blktalon
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3. March 2005 @ 01:35 |
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I had problems with my lite-on sohw-1213s after about 500+ burns. I don't use Nero so the logs don't look familiar. I used clone and decryptor to burn and both would fail at some random point in the burn. I only use TY's so I thought maybe it was a bad batch, tried a different batch same result.
I fixed the problem(after 7 coasters) by
1)Defragging the drive
2)Using a CD-ROM lens cleaner
3)Vaccuming the drive area
Just over 100 burns after the problem through that drive and it's still going strong. Also got a lite-on SOHW-1633s from Dell(they had it for around 70 shipped) and it is running like a champ also. I work my drives hard as I use it to rip and burn running through about 5 DVD's each a day and hope they can last more than 1000 burns each. Noob out.
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judono
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3. March 2005 @ 02:38 |
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I just recently ran into a few problems with my ide 1008. I could burn cds fine and even burn movies at 4x no problem but 8x would always fail. Finally realized that the secondary ide was not recognizing my drive as dma available. It was running in PIO mode only. Freaking sucked cuz I went thru lots of dvdr's. Anyhow changed my 1008 so that it was on secondary slave and now xp recognizes the dma on it. Finally able to burn at 8x. But every so often it switches back to PIO only. I hear it could possibly be a bad disk the drive is trying to read. Oh well what can you do except delete and renistall the sec. ide channel. Anyway I hope this helps a few people out there.
Judonome
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CloneDron
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3. March 2005 @ 15:48 |
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Hi,
I'm no expert on this. But after what you have gone through and if it were me I'd do this. Put all my user files in a safe place and do a complete format of the computer system, just as if you brought it home from the store. Then if you still run into the problems, it's one of your programs. If not, then you might have something about the 1000 hour thing.
That's what I'd do. Forget about what programs claim to be lame because if it was working before it can't be lame can it?
CloneDrone
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meash
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4. March 2005 @ 01:53 |
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Hmm.. I'd love to just reformat the whole computer, but i'm in a foreign country at the moment and for various reasons, it's just to impractical for me to do that..
So, for now, i'd like to just sweep my dirt under the rug.
However, I've got a new bit of info that i'd like to share..
I went to event viewer to check things out, and in systems, there are a whole load of red crosses symbolising the same error.
cdrom event 7. In its properties, it says the device /device/cdrom0 has a bad block, and it has a link to the following
Details
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 7
Source: Cdrom
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
Explanation
The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The data might be missing or corrupted.
User Action
Do one or all of the following:
Retry the operation.
Clean the physical hard drive.
Use newer media.
Version: 5.0
Component: System Event Log
Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
Explanation
The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The data might be missing or corrupted.
User Action
Do one or all of the following:
Retry the operation.
Clean the physical hard drive.
Use newer media.
By cleaning the physical hard drive, does that mean wiping out all my current personal stuff?? Does that mean reformating??
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dlc2000
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4. March 2005 @ 08:02 |
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are there any problems shown in the device manager ? i would try uninstalling the drive through the device manager and let windows redetect it and reinstall it , before formatting the machine .
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Oyk
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19. March 2005 @ 10:47 |
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Hi all,
I have similar problems with my NU-Tech DDW-082 drive, but it started quite soon after I bought it.. I'd probably not even burnt 10 DVD-r's before it started. CD-r's still burn fine, but first 3 out of 4 DVD's would go wrong and now all of them do so... 2x or 4x, makes no difference..
Maybe this isn't relevant, but my motherboard is based on the KT-400 chipset and I'd like to know which chipset other users with similar problems had, because I recently heard a lot of negative sounds on that particular chipset.. also in combination with WD harddisks.. (and guess what brand harddisk I recently bought)... :(
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meash
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19. March 2005 @ 20:08 |
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"are there any problems shown in the device manager ? i would try uninstalling the drive through the device manager and let windows redetect it and reinstall it , before formatting the machine"
Hmm.. Sounds like good advice.. but I don't know how to check if there are any problems on the device manager, and I don't know how to uninstall the drive. Could you talk me through this process?
Today. I tried to rar. some of my files to burn them and keep them save incase I wake up one day to a completely inefficient computer. The computer wouldn't burn rar. either. It still burns tunes though.. strange..
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19. March 2005 @ 20:36 |
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To uninstall a drive,
Start >
Control Panel >
System >
Hardware >
Go to Device Manager >
Expand the tree for DVD/CD ROM Drives >
Find the drive in question, right click it and go to Properties >
Under the Driver tab, select Uninstall then OK.
Now reboot and Windows should detect and reinstall the drive.
If this doesn't help try the same steps as above except expand the tree for IDE ATA/ATA Controllers and uninstall either the Primary or Secondary controller depending on which one the drive in question is attatched to. Nero Info Tool can tell you which chain the drive is on under the Configuration tab.
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/nero_info_tool.cfm
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meash
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19. March 2005 @ 20:56 |
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Thanks for the speedy response!
I did what you said. When I reebooted, I opened my computer, and the drive d wasn't recognised at all, so I went to device manager and checked there. The DVD/CD-Rom drive Toshiba DVD ROM SD-R2312 is disabled. It says that normally happens if the device isn't working properly, or causing a resource conflict. Should I enable, or has this spotted the problem that was there in the first place?
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meash
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19. March 2005 @ 23:21 |
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I can't enable the dvd-rom sd-r2312 so it doesn't work at all now :( !!!
Help!
Edited to say, that after panicing, I remembered the handy systems restore tool, so i'm back to where I was before uninstalling..
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