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bd1886
05-14-2007, 01:27 PM
Have a Samsung CDRW/DVD-R that is not burning cd's now. Guess it's common for one side or the other to just die? K...can this ever be just a driver issue or is it most likely a physical hardware issue. (Used an oem drive so I used the windows drivers and they seemed to work fine.) Can a critter kill burning?
pam123
05-14-2007, 01:46 PM
Most likely a physical hardware issue.
Has XP popped up any messages or is it just ignoring the disk until you give up and hit "eject"?
bd1886
05-14-2007, 01:55 PM
Ignoring.
pam123
05-14-2007, 02:15 PM
Hmmnn....
Right click on the drive in My Computer and chose Properties>Hardware ( check through the other tab choices as well ) anything show up?
Is there a yellow "?" in Device Manager ?
Is it only blank disks ( cds) that get that response or is not recognizing anything at all?
bd1886
05-14-2007, 03:29 PM
Did that and there were no obvious problems,however...backed of on the burn speed a bit and it is working fine for now. Thanks for the help!
pam123
05-14-2007, 04:03 PM
Did that and there were no obvious problems,however...backed of on the burn speed a bit and it is working fine for now. Thanks for the help!

Uh-oh...
That's a good solution but you may be having a problem with the media you're using.
bd1886
05-14-2007, 04:27 PM
Bumped it back to highest burn rate and all is well. Must have been a temporary glitch. (Thanks for being "Johnny on the Spot" pam.) This is the best dang site because of everyones "ethic" !!!