TSGL: DVD-RW & CD-RW not writeable

[Russell W. Coover]

I don't know what your problem is, but it seems strange that both your
DVD-RW drives failed at once. It probably is not a failure of both devices
-- unless you had some strange voltage spike that hit both. 

That said, the first thing I might try to do is to go to the Control Panel,
to the System Icon, to the Hardware tab, to the Device Manager, to
DVD/CD-ROM Drives and then uninstall the two drives. 

Reboot and allow the two drives to reinstall themselves. 

This may solve your problem. If it doesn't, then you evidently have a
serious problem that will require further investigation.

Good luck.

Russ Coover

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-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Ron Brunton
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:29 AM
To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'
Subject: TSGL: DVD-RW & CD-RW not writeable

Hi list,

I've just recently had my two DVD-RW drives stop recognizing rewriteable
media. I am using Nero Ultra 7.5 and I still seem to be able to burn CD-Rs.
I haven't tested DVD-R because I don't want to waste the DVD (yet). However,
InCD reports that I cannot write to the RW media and Windows Explorer shows
0 bytes free. This behaviour has just started recently, but I don't know of
any system changes that would have produced this effect, although there
obviously was something. I have re-installed Nero, but that hasn't made any
difference.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

System: Intel Core Duo w/ 4GB RAM
Benq DVD-RW
Sony DVD-RW
WinXP SP2 (fully patched)

Ron


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