Re: mysterious problem CD/DVD drives

Linea Recta wrote:

Recently my father (no internet) has a mysterious problem with his DVD
burner. While burning an audio CD (from his own WAV files) he got an
error in Nero 'operation aborted' or something of the likes.
After rebooting computer and trying again, the Sony DVD writer doesn't
seem to burn, nor recognize media (blanks nor with content) anymore.
The other drive, a Liteon CD player also doesn't recognize media
anymore. Looking under devices in Windows 2000 there are no warning
icons, and both drives show up. Under properties the text indicates
that the devices are working properly.
During boot up of the computer, both drives are still recognized in
the BIOS.
I'm at a loss...

Any ideas what's going on?



This is a WAG. Have you gone into Task Manager after rebooting and made
sure Nero wasn't running in the background in some sort of weird hung state
due to the original error? Maybe if it is, it is stopping other programs
from accessing the CD's. Killing it in Task Manager may solve the problem,
or may not.

Like I said, it's a WAG but easy to check and likely won't harm anything.

--
Bill Asher
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