CDRW drive not recognize media?

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My father-in-law's PC is acting strange and hopefully someone here can give
me some pointers...

His CD burner won't recognize any blank CDs. It reads CDs just fine. Even
burned ones. But it won't recognize blank CDs when I try to burn new ones. I
used Nero 5.5, and then switched to Easy CD Creator 5 with the latest
patches, and it still is no dice.

I didn't install the burner in his PC, so I believe that he did. And I doubt
he bothered with any driver or anything. He claimed it worked fine until a
few weeks ago. But trying to isolate the cause by asking him questions is
like pulling teeth. My understanding was that there was no need for a
manufacturer's driver for a CD burner (it's a no-name whitebox. I'll have to
pull the cover off his PC tomorrow to get the manufacturer of the burner).
The ATAPI driver that windows 98 (his OS) assigned it would be fine right?

I do plan on bringing some of my media over. He had two batches of brand new
Fujitsu 80 minute CDRs (bought separately), so it's possible that the burner
just doesn't like that brand of CD blanks but I doubt it. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
 
It could very well be media that the burner doesn't like.....I have had similar problems over the years with many different types of
burners and media..BENQ being one of the worst. Did nero load the 'image drive' software? Try removing NERO, Easy create, and the
burner from the device manager. reboot wait for the burner to be recognized by XP. then load the software. XP as you know has its
own burnware, I don't know if there is a way a dumping that, but if you can, I would.
 
If you install all the software look on th e Nero site for info because the
Adaptec software leaves stuff behind and you can get into all sorts of
problems. The Nero website tells you how to manually get rid of all the
adaptec changes.

I only use one brand of CDR and occassionally a CD will not be recognised by
the drive. I out it sown to duff media and use them as coasters.

the_gnome


JAD said:
It could very well be media that the burner doesn't like.....I have had
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similar problems over the years with many different types of
burners and media..BENQ being one of the worst. Did nero load the 'image
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drive' software? Try removing NERO, Easy create, and the
burner from the device manager. reboot wait for the burner to be
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recognized by XP. then load the software. XP as you know has its
 
Hi Mark!




mark said:
My father-in-law's PC is acting strange and hopefully someone here can give
me some pointers...

His CD burner won't recognize any blank CDs. It reads CDs just fine. Even
burned ones. But it won't recognize blank CDs when I try to burn new ones. I
used Nero 5.5, and then switched to Easy CD Creator 5 with the latest
patches, and it still is no dice.

I didn't install the burner in his PC, so I believe that he did. And I doubt
he bothered with any driver or anything. He claimed it worked fine until a
few weeks ago. But trying to isolate the cause by asking him questions is
like pulling teeth. My understanding was that there was no need for a
manufacturer's driver for a CD burner (it's a no-name whitebox. I'll have to
pull the cover off his PC tomorrow to get the manufacturer of the burner).
The ATAPI driver that windows 98 (his OS) assigned it would be fine right?

I do plan on bringing some of my media over. He had two batches of brand new
Fujitsu 80 minute CDRs (bought separately), so it's possible that the burner
just doesn't like that brand of CD blanks but I doubt it. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
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Mark,

Every cd-rw burner I ever installed came with a cd disk that contained the
necessary driver required to make the burner work.

This driver has nothing to do with Nero or EZ-CD Creator which are separate
programs.

What OS is used on the PC? XP has a built-in burner program.
 
Every cd-rw burner I ever installed came with a cd disk that contained the
necessary driver required to make the burner work.
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they come with a DOS driver only.....windows already has atpi drivers for all Roms
 
I've just bought a brand new LG Goldstar CD burner (52x24x52).
It doesn't recognizes the older CD-RWs I was using in my old Yamaha CR4416.
The units aren't compatible with every type of CD to be burnt.

RTFM of the burner or go to the manufacturer site, you'll learn what CD
speed you shall use.
I've also read that old units aren't able to write new media. Unfortunately,
although I'm 90% sure,
I can't confirm since I can't manage to retrieve the source of that
information.

Good luck
 
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