DVD Rom drive on laptop playing up please help

debitcardmayhem

What are you using to burn ? Can the burn prog do a disk copy from it?

Tomtom07

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

What are you using to burn ? Can the burn prog do a disk copy from it?

Nero 7.9 and no can not do a copy from it, also just tried using roxio to burn and no problems, but still no luck in getting it to read the disk once burnt

debitcardmayhem

See earlier you checked drivers , did to try uninstall from device manager ther rescan for h/w

Tomtom07

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

See earlier you checked drivers , did to try uninstall from device manager ther rescan for h/w

yep and still the same problem, does the laser lose weakness for any reason?? (and yes I have cleaned the lens)

kwikbreaks

The truly weird thing to my mind is that you can read dvds you've burned on this machine on other machines but not the one you burned them on. What happens if you tell the burning program to verify what you've burned (I'm guessing it has to fail).

You say you can read commercial dvds - what about dvds burned on other machine's burners? Have you tried other blank dvd brands and both -R and +R variants.

debitcardmayhem

If you go into Device manager/properties/details is there a problem code ?

Tomtom07

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The truly weird thing to my mind is that you can read dvds you've burned on this machine on other machines but not the one you burned them on. What happens if you tell the burning program to verify what you've burned (I'm guessing it has to fail).

You say you can read commercial dvds - what about dvds burned on other machine's burners? Have you tried other blank dvd brands and both -R and +R variants.

If i ask the program to verify I get a failed message, have tried disks from other pcs and no luck:( & have tried + & - disks

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

If you go into Device manager/properties/details is there a problem code ?

No problem code, device is working properly


.......where my hammer!

Niv

E-buyer have a good range of DVD drives I believe .....

Tomtom07

Niv wrote: »

E-buyer have a good range of DVD drives I believe .....

Ooooh a nice pretty litescribe one for me I thinks

TonyMMM

CD and DVd writers use 2 lasers ...one to read, and a more powerful one to burn data onto the disc. Your problem would suggest that the "Write" laser is working fine , so you can burn data onto a disc (and others can read it) but your "Read" laser isn't.

....a new drive is needed