FredNash
21st January 2007, 17:52
I've been having this problem for quite some time now and I'm really at a loss. I have an old Memorex 4x +/- dvd burner I've been using for about 2 years now, and about 4 months ago I encountered the problem that it will burn dvds to completion with no errors, it doesn't matter if they are movies or data, but when I try to read the discs, they read as being empty. I can see where on the disc it has been written, but there is no readable data. I have tried this drive in both my computers, and I am running completely up to date Windows XP on both.
At first I thought my drive simply went bad after hundreds of burned discs, but I'm not sure that is the case. I have 3 or 4 different types of media, both + and -, and one still burns, an old batch of Verbatim +R media. I have another, newer batch of Verbatim that won't burn, along some Memorex +R and some Imation -R. I was running Nero 6, but upgraded to Nero 7.5.9.0. I have tried the drive on both computers, one is a 1.3 gig amd and the other is a 3000+ amd.
The Memorex burner appears to be a Dual-X1. After assuming the drive went bad I purchased a Sony AW-Q170A-B2 from NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131038R
I moved the Memorex to my 1.3 gig and installed the Sony into my 3 gig. The Memorex is doing the same thing on my 1.3 gig and the Sony is also displaying the same behavior on the 3 gig.
I am stumped. I don't see how 3 or 4 different types of media can all be bad, some of them are very recently purchased. Also I don't understand why the discs would burn without any errors and not have data on them, I even checked the "verify written data" option, although I'm not really sure what that does. Both drives burn CDs fine.
Can anyone give me some suggestions for what to do?
At first I thought my drive simply went bad after hundreds of burned discs, but I'm not sure that is the case. I have 3 or 4 different types of media, both + and -, and one still burns, an old batch of Verbatim +R media. I have another, newer batch of Verbatim that won't burn, along some Memorex +R and some Imation -R. I was running Nero 6, but upgraded to Nero 7.5.9.0. I have tried the drive on both computers, one is a 1.3 gig amd and the other is a 3000+ amd.
The Memorex burner appears to be a Dual-X1. After assuming the drive went bad I purchased a Sony AW-Q170A-B2 from NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131038R
I moved the Memorex to my 1.3 gig and installed the Sony into my 3 gig. The Memorex is doing the same thing on my 1.3 gig and the Sony is also displaying the same behavior on the 3 gig.
I am stumped. I don't see how 3 or 4 different types of media can all be bad, some of them are very recently purchased. Also I don't understand why the discs would burn without any errors and not have data on them, I even checked the "verify written data" option, although I'm not really sure what that does. Both drives burn CDs fine.
Can anyone give me some suggestions for what to do?