Laptop DVD Writer not working

paragp

I have a toshiba A60-692 and it seems that the DVD drive will not complete writing DVD files to the media. It will start writing and within five minutes it will open the DVD drive but when you look at the DVD there is very little information witten to it. It used to work ok before. Also I can burn things to a CD without any problems. anyone have any ideas?

imho

This is a long shot but ... try doing a defrag of your hard drive.this is excellent http://www.iobit.com/ A lot of the problems i been reading about failure to burn on to discs is the hard disc needs defragment

j_davies

What do you use for burning Nero? or something else, I used to have a similar problem but dropping the write speed to 1x I now have lovely DVDs with no errors but they do ofcourse take longer to do.

ph166

have you tried burning with different media ? if its not still under warranty try updating the firmware on the drive.

TheFaqqer

Have you tried burning at a lower speed? My laptop doesn't burn at the top speed on some cheaper media than I have used in the past - took me ages to work it out why it was failing, slowed down the write and it was fine.

HTH,

Faqqer

aussielovell

i also have that problem with my new laptop - Advent 7105p. Been like that since i bought it. It had a prog written in and that doesnt work. Have also tried nero and another prog but to no avail. I wondered if perhaps i was using the wrong discs. (+ or -) but i cant find which i should be using. Nothing on the manual and no reply from PC World.

It goes through the writing process but right at the end it then says that it has been unable to complete

arealhighlander

DVD-R are the most common, if you dont know if it will do + or -RW or +RW etc. DVD-R should definately work.

As mentioned, certain brands of disk dont work with certain burners, tho more modern writers are a lot better.

A lot of companies sell packs of half dozen different dvd disks so you can try each out to find one that your burner does like.

paragp

thanks to all your answers, the write speed on my drive is already 1x however i might try the defrag of the harddrive to see if that works, also the media I am using is the cheapy PC World own brand so may be I will try a better brand and see if that works..

as for the firmware update, i could not find any for my drive (Pioneer DVD-R KV13.... or something like that)

imho

This page has lots on it http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-e/ibs/device_e/dev00001r_e.html
You need to run Belarac scanner to make sure what your drive number is.

paragp

my dvd drive is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K13A. does anybody know if there is a firmware update for this Drive. I have firmware version 2.0.

paragp

hey i defraged my HD and tried burning a DVD using InterVideo's DVDCopy and it worked on both branded and non branded media....:beer: :j