DVD-Drive problem

[Vikram Varaprasad]

What's the problem with my DVD drive (laptop) ?

It just reads the contents of the CD only. It didn't write to the CDs.
Hmmm, coming to DVD, it not even recognizing it.

One issue is that, when i'm burning the Cd (cd is recognized by the drive) by using nero software, it shows the entire process of burning and shows the message "Burn process completed successfully", but the CD is blank even after writing. It can be used for further writing (blank).

Why this happens I don't know but my drive reads the contents of CD very accurately and  fast

Tell me the remedy for this . Thanks in advance

[Broni]

Laptop brand and model, please.
Are you sure, you have a burner there?
Did it work before?
Did you try some other burning program, like CDBurnerXP: http://cdburnerxp.se/?

[Vikram Varaprasad]

Acer aspire 4720

It had the burner. It worked very well before and for last 3 months it didn't work.

[patio]

"Burn process completed successfully", but the CD is blank even after writing. It can be used for further writing (blank).

This normally means the burn project was not "finalised".....the CD will appear blank.

DLoad the free ver. of ISOBuster and you can extract the data and then burn it properly...

[Allan]

Or, at the end of the Nero burning process click on "finalize disc"

[Broni]

Did you try some other burning program, like CDBurnerXP: http://cdburnerxp.se/?

[patio]

Where ya been ? ?
I should get your commision check for this past month...

[Broni]

I thought, our Chrome account would support me in cases like that 
Being busy with malware fight on few other boards and I also got hooked up on skinning and other CSS "games" . Did a lot of work on my own board...

[patio]

Well good to see you again...
Don't be a stranger.

[Broni]

[Vikram Varaprasad]

I'm sorry, I'm an offline user and i don't have enough money to pay for internet ( very poor student). So i can't post you my replies at instance.

I tried allmost all the CD/DVD burners to burn CD/DVD, but the problem cann't been solved. The drive only recognizes the CDs and only reads the CDs, It won't support the DVDs (didn't recognized them). Before september my drive supported all the CDs and DVDs but later there are so many changes came in my laptop.

1) The Drive won't recognize the DVDs and didn't write anything to CDs/DVDs

2) My battery backup was downed to just 4mins( very poor backup). why i don't know (It was lion battery)

[Broni]

I'm afraid, the drive is dying

[Vikram Varaprasad]

How can you  say ? It still reading CDs very accurately and fastly.

[Vikram Varaprasad]

I found one thing yesterday that surprisingly My Drive recognized an "empty dvd" that it is blank. But later 2 to 3 hrs i put the same dvd but it won't recognized..........

The burner become too hot why i don't know.

[Broni]

DVD RW has 4 lasers: CD read, CD write, DVD read, DVD write. Some of them seem to be out, or on their way...