CD won't read OEM Disks, but will read Burnt Disks?!

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I have had a LG 8x4x32 CD burner running under Windows 2000 for a year and a
half. Just recently, it will not read OEM or music disks, but it will read
disks that have been burnt! It will not burn a disk at this point, but
Hotburn can do a successful simulation of a burn.

Thinking this might be software related, I have attempted to boot from the
Windows 2000 CD, but it will not boot. When I attemp to access an OEM disk,
I get an error indicating "Please insert disk into Drive D:". I have
cleaned my CD Burner with a disk that has little brushes on it.

I am not too knowledgeable about things of this nature. Does this sound
like the CD Burner is no good? Or does it sound like I have a software
issue? BIOS? I installed a new video card recently. Could this cause
problems for a CD burner? Unfortunately, I did not use my CD drive for a
month or two after installing the video card (except to install video
drivers), so I am not certain if my problem can be traced to the video card.

Thank you for your input.

Chris
 
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C. Bailey said:
I have had a LG 8x4x32 CD burner running under Windows 2000 for a
year and a half. Just recently, it will not read OEM or music disks,
but it will read disks that have been burnt! It will not burn a disk
at this point, but Hotburn can do a successful simulation of a burn.

Thinking this might be software related, I have attempted to boot
from the Windows 2000 CD, but it will not boot. When I attemp to
access an OEM disk, I get an error indicating "Please insert disk
into Drive D:". I have cleaned my CD Burner with a disk that has
little brushes on it.

I am not too knowledgeable about things of this nature. Does this
sound like the CD Burner is no good? Or does it sound like I have a
software issue? BIOS? I installed a new video card recently. Could
this cause problems for a CD burner? Unfortunately, I did not use my
CD drive for a month or two after installing the video card (except
to install video drivers), so I am not certain if my problem can be
traced to the video card.

Thank you for your input.

Chris
Click to expand...

Not sure if its related but I recently heard that the new copy
protection system on some music CD's can break CD players ....
perhaps thats what has caused the demise of yours?
 
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