TSGL: DVD-RW & CD-RW not writeable

[The Computer Whisperer]

make sure your BIOS drive detection is set to autodetect drives, or
switch them to CD-ROM or ATAPI for the appropriate IDE ports.

Justin

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On 16/10/06, Russell W. Coover <coover at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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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> until I return.
> -----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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