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heathawk

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24. July 2006 @ 21:34

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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.

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Dunker

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25. July 2006 @ 12:26

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Well, dumb question, but is whatever you're burning with doing a simulation? That's the only thing I can think of that wouldn't throw an error.

Try using Imgburn (which is supposedly better than DD for burning anyway). Try Nero if that doesn't work.

Failing all else, you could try uninstalling the drive, rebooting so your system removes the drivers, rebooting again, and then reinstalling the drive. Check jumpers and cables and stuff to make sure all are ok if you do.

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-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.

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