CD burner won't recognize blank cd... - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

krwlz · 12-08-2003, 03:58 PM

I just bought a stack of blank cds. Cheap ones, but whatever. I burn a copy of disk 1 to the wall for my mother, go to burn the second one, and the damn drive wont even recognize the fact that there is a cd in there...

Any ideas?

Ive already tried four differant blanks, so I doubt its that.

samremy · 12-08-2003, 08:08 PM

Change the media.

I had the same problem. Just a couple of weeks ago, I made my first attempt to burn my very first CD. I was running Nero 6 using Memorex CD-R media and Nero kept giving me a "please insert blank CD" error, just after it appeared to start burning to the CD-R. I did every thing that Nero's site suggested and still the same problem. I thought that my CD/RW was faulty or that maybe its Firmware was corrupted. I flashed the memory with the latest firmware version, still no good. I began searching the net for clues, and I believe that it was here that I read that others were having similar problems with Memorex media, so at Wal-Mart I bought a stack of Sony CD-Rs at a lesser price and they seem to be working, although I'm wasting every-other-one with failed burns. I'm still trying to work that out...Good luck!

Scorpion23 · 12-08-2003, 09:23 PM

I had the same thing happen to me. First the memorex started not working so I started using some cheap store brand ones. But after awhile nothing worked anymore.
It turns out that I had dust buildup on my drive lens, after a good cleaning it ran everything fine, even the old memorex. I don't know if those CD cleaner kits you see in the store work or not, I had taken mine apart thinking it was the drive mechanism and saw all the dust. I just cleaned it with a q-tip and put everything back like it was.

Now it works like a charm. If only it wasn't a 4x4x20 :-(

darkure · 12-09-2003, 06:24 AM

Scorpion, I too have been having the same problem. I just tried what you did and it works great now. Thanks!

krwlz · 12-09-2003, 12:46 PM

I have one of those cds thats supposed to clean your laser. Ill give it a shot.

krwlz · 12-09-2003, 07:06 PM

Seems that when you accidentaly dis-able the disk detector... it doesnt want to detect the disk...

Who woulda thought that!?

12-08-2003, 03:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
krwlz Fledgling Dead Head Location: Clarkson U.	CD burner won't recognize blank cd... I just bought a stack of blank cds. Cheap ones, but whatever. I burn a copy of disk 1 to the wall for my mother, go to burn the second one, and the damn drive wont even recognize the fact that there is a cd in there... Any ideas? Ive already tried four differant blanks, so I doubt its that.

12-08-2003, 08:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
samremy ‘Crotch Level’ Intellectual Location: Southwest, USA	Change the media. I had the same problem. Just a couple of weeks ago, I made my first attempt to burn my very first CD. I was running Nero 6 using Memorex CD-R media and Nero kept giving me a "please insert blank CD" error, just after it appeared to start burning to the CD-R. I did every thing that Nero's site suggested and still the same problem. I thought that my CD/RW was faulty or that maybe its Firmware was corrupted. I flashed the memory with the latest firmware version, still no good. I began searching the net for clues, and I believe that it was here that I read that others were having similar problems with Memorex media, so at Wal-Mart I bought a stack of Sony CD-Rs at a lesser price and they seem to be working, although I'm wasting every-other-one with failed burns. I'm still trying to work that out...Good luck! __________________ "...to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government .. " -- The US Declaration of Independence

12-08-2003, 09:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
Scorpion23 Psycho	I had the same thing happen to me. First the memorex started not working so I started using some cheap store brand ones. But after awhile nothing worked anymore. It turns out that I had dust buildup on my drive lens, after a good cleaning it ran everything fine, even the old memorex. I don't know if those CD cleaner kits you see in the store work or not, I had taken mine apart thinking it was the drive mechanism and saw all the dust. I just cleaned it with a q-tip and put everything back like it was. Now it works like a charm. If only it wasn't a 4x4x20 :-( __________________ "Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality" - Edward Tufte

12-09-2003, 06:24 AM	#4 (permalink)
darkure Addict Location: Dodging the ice pick	Scorpion, I too have been having the same problem. I just tried what you did and it works great now. Thanks! __________________ COYW

12-09-2003, 12:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
krwlz Fledgling Dead Head Location: Clarkson U.	I have one of those cds thats supposed to clean your laser. Ill give it a shot.

12-09-2003, 07:06 PM	#6 (permalink)
krwlz Fledgling Dead Head Location: Clarkson U.	Seems that when you accidentaly dis-able the disk detector... it doesnt want to detect the disk... Who woulda thought that!?