Disc Drive not recognising discs?

JMurph

So I went to maplin yesterday, their cheapest drive was 40 quid!!! So I told them they could keep it, went home and ordered a drive with Lightscribe (had never heard of it, cool idea) off Amazon for £19.50. I had a gift voucher so that was why I went for amazon.

Thanks for all the helpful advice!

Donnie

JMurph wrote: »

So I went to maplin yesterday, their cheapest drive was 40 quid!!! So I told them they could keep it, went home and ordered a drive with Lightscribe (had never heard of it, cool idea) off Amazon for £19.50. I had a gift voucher so that was why I went for amazon.

Thanks for all the helpful advice!

Let's hope that you ordered an IDE drive. Perhaps you can post the link to the machine. You may have to put some spaces within the link to be able to post it.

Trinitrotoluene

Is the Munchkin still under warranty? If so I suggest sending him/her back for a replacement XD!!

davester

Lightscribe requires special Discs to burn an image onto the top of the Disc. Never used it myself, but other discs will work on the important thing of putting data on it, just wo't beable to put an image on the top using the lightscribe. So take out that pen and write on it, or use the CD sticker system thingy.

wuckfit

Lightscribe is great, although it does take ages to 'burn' the lightscribe side. Highest Quality takes >20mins, it's like having a 4x drive all over again... :rotfl:

KillerWatt

wuckfit wrote: »

Lightscribe is great, although it does take ages to 'burn' the lightscribe side. Highest Quality takes >20mins, it's like having a 4x drive all over again... :rotfl:

If your 4x drive takes more than 20 minutes to do a full (4.7GB) burn, something is wrong.

Enterprise_1701C

We have the same computer, when taking the side off there is a release on the back to press. Sorry, can't get to ours right now to check, precisely where but it should save you spending a couple of minutes just trying to pull it off like I did!!

Donnie

davester wrote: »

Lightscribe requires special Discs to burn an image onto the top of the Disc. Never used it myself, but other discs will work on the important thing of putting data on it, just wo't beable to put an image on the top using the lightscribe. So take out that pen and write on it, or use the CD sticker system thingy.

You really should peruse the thread before posting...or at least take note of the posts with the big pictures.

Enterprise_1701C

Just had a look, I think the release is the large black right angle thing a little more than half way down on the back.

TwistedPsycho

wuckfit wrote: »

Lightscribe is great, although it does take ages to 'burn' the lightscribe side. Highest Quality takes >20mins, it's like having a 4x drive all over again... :rotfl:

I think the post was refering to the burning of the Lightscribe image, not the data......