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Frankwm

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18. July 2005 @ 09:35

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About a week ago my DVD burner (Sony DVD RW DW-U18A) was working fine when I burned a DVD movie using CloneDVD2. (Operating system=Windows XP Pro).

Now, it still reads and plays CD's & DVD's perfectly, but will not burn them.

When I click on the drive in Windows explorer, with a blank CD or DVD in the drive, Windows returns an error message,

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D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.

Under Windows Device Manager, it shows the device as working & under the Volumes Tab it populates the blank DVD OK (capacity/space, zero of course).

As far as I can recall, I have not installed any new software or updates since the last time I used it to burn a DVD.

Finally my question: Could this be a software problem, or has the burning function of the DVD drive simply crapped out, i.e. time to buy a new burner?

P.S: DVD Identifier is able to analyze & identify the disk.

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biglog9

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18. July 2005 @ 11:18

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did you try and uninstall the drive in device manager
power down then xp should reinstall the drive

on another note i had a sony dru-500a(i think) that did about the same thing. it didnt read dvd or cds but it burned(wierd).
i tried so much to fix it, but ended up buying a new burner

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