CD Burner acting screwy. (help a brother out)
 

Hey ya'll heres the problem. LG 52x24x52 cd burner. Its being detected just fine by the system. Wont burn to disk's, but will burn to cd-rw's. Is it possible that i got a bad stack of disks or is the drive on its way out? Its less than 7 months old and i have only burned about 400 disks.


Thanks in advanced
Shadowalker
(the orginal)

Try a different brand/batch of disks.

You might also try burning CD-Rs at a slower speed (such as 24x like your CD-RWs) and see how that works. AFAIK, burning CD-Rs and CD-RWs use different lasers, so it's conceivable (though unlikely) that your CD-R burning laser died. Does the software *think* it's burning the disk but it comes out blank? Or does it actually burn the disk but it's unreadable? Or does it just spit the disk back out and say "I can't burn this!"?

The software reports a complete burn but when i put the disk in a seprate drive its still blank, I did not know about different lasers, so i'm thinking now that i'm screwed. But befor i give up all hope i'll pick up a 5 pack of other disks and give them a try.

Well the other system not recognizing the disk and the disk actually being blank are two very different things. You can visually inspect the writeable side of a CD-R to see if it's been written to. The written portion will have a different reflective color or hue when held at the right angle. Unwritten portions will look "shinier". If you burn a 500MB file to a CD-R and there is no noticeable "written" portion on the disk, then your laser is probably toasted. If your disk is actually getting written to, then it might just be a simple software or hardware problem (bad IDE cable -> incorrect data being written, for example).

its the laser, its not physically makeing a change to the disk, only the rw's are currently working. I go on the phone with LG and there going to send me one just for the cost of shipping. (props for lg seeing that i never regestered the drive in the frist place)