Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: phinstrain on May 18, 2011, 03:33:58 AM
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Hello C.H, I can't seem to get my cd drive to burn some files from my documents. I opened up the cd drive from my computer and moved the data over to the cd drive. Put a disk into the cd drive. Clicked copy to cd and got the error message (Please insert a writable disk into drive. The cd I'm using is a (Memorex cd-rw ultra speed 700mb) and I tried a Hypermedia cd recordable multi speed 700mb. neither worked. Could some one tell me what I'm doing wrong? PhinsTrain.
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Possibly drive is faulty.
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Hello C.H, I can't seem to get my cd drive to burn some files from my documents. I opened up the cd drive from my computer and moved the data over to the cd drive. Put a disk into the cd drive. Clicked copy to cd and got the error message (Please insert a writable disk into drive. The cd I'm using is a (Memorex cd-rw ultra speed 700mb) and I tried a Hypermedia cd recordable multi speed 700mb. neither worked. Could some one tell me what I'm doing wrong? PhinsTrain.
Did the drive ever work properly? How old is the drive?
I think Salmon is right though. The drive is probably dead. Dead writers can still read fine as a different part of the drive conducts the actually writing. It's likely not able to detect the media in the drive or is detecting it incorrectly.