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Re: DVD burners have stopped writing

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Yousuf Khan wrote:

> I had a pair of DVD burners, both of which have stopped writing (they
> can still read them though). They were IDE drives, and they were
> connected to each other on the same cable. One of them had started to
> spew out random errors in the event log, but the other one was fine.
> Then all of a sudden I noticed that the random errors had stopped.
> This would've been good if it meant that everything is working again.
> But after I tried to burn a disk it didn't seem to work in either drive. I tried removing the drive that had 
> previously been shown as giving the errors, but it didn't help, the other drive still won't write either.

> Is it possible that one drive could've damaged the other drive by being connected to the same wire as the other?

Not that so much as prevent the other drive from working properly.

The obvious test for that possibility is to have only one drive on
the cable at a time and see if you still cant burn with either drive.

If you cant, try a new cable.

If that doesnt help either, try a different IDE connector
on the motherboard if there is more than one. From
memory you do run pretty elderly systems, but maybe
that was Ant, not you.

> The software I'm using ImgBurn, shows a lot of diagnostics messages, and all it shows when I try to start a burn on 
> the drive is that there is no medium inserted,
> and the drive is not ready.

I'd also try burning with something else like Roxio EMC or Nero.

> The drive can detect other types of disks just fine though, just not blank disks.

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DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-06 21:22 -0500
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 16:14 +1100
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:18 -0500
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 08:41 +0000
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:23 -0500
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 17:16 +0000
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 07:00 +1100
        Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-09 14:22 -0500
          Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 08:32 +1100
            Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-10 05:44 +0000
              Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 17:07 +1100
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-11 04:16 +0000
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 03:03 +1100
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-11 17:33 +0000
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Frank Williams <FWilliams@happy.com.ru> - 2012-02-08 13:15 +1300
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 11:55 +1100
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-09 14:23 -0500
        Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 08:34 +1100
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2012-02-11 16:27 +1100
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-15 17:37 -0500
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 16:01 +1100

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