On my Win XP Pro SP3 computer , I have a SamsungDVD-Rom SD-616T drive, with the latest firmware :F310 . My problem is that recently, the drive
won't read DVDs, but it will read Cd's just fine. But the drive will go back and forth between reading DVDs or not. Right now it won't read DVDs at all.
I looked in computer management/event viewer/system , and saw about 16 of these errors :
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.
Thanks for your replies.I bought a new Maxell DVD Optical lens cleaner, ran it and now the drive is reading disks again.I had a older drive cleaner but it looks like it no longer works.
But your correct about the drive being old, and I will have to replace it sometime .I guess I'm trying to get more miles on the old drive.
Originally posted by leoliver: Thanks for your replies.I bought a new Maxell DVD Optical lens cleaner, ran it and now the drive is reading disks again.I had a older drive cleaner but it looks like it no longer works.
But your correct about the drive being old, and I will have to replace it sometime .I guess I'm trying to get more miles on the old drive.
That cleaner disc was probably half the cost of the cheap Lite-ons out there.
Originally posted by leoliver: Thanks for your replies.I bought a new Maxell DVD Optical lens cleaner, ran it and now the drive is reading disks again.I had a older drive cleaner but it looks like it no longer works.
But your correct about the drive being old, and I will have to replace it sometime .I guess I'm trying to get more miles on the old drive.
That cleaner disc was probably half the cost of the cheap Lite-ons out there.
