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dvd cd burner

15 years ago

Last February the CD burner on my HP Pavilion 302 died. I replaced it with an LG DVD CD burner and my notes of that day indicated I tested and it worked ok.

Within the past couple of months I've noticed that the drive doesn't recognize a blank DVD disk, neither R or RW. It does recognize blank CD. It does play both DVD and CD.

I don't recall if there was documentation with the unit; can't find anything. I do have an external DVD CD burner and it works very well so this is not a crises.

Any advice is welcome including SWAGs.

Bob

Central Arizona

Comments (3)

ravencajun Zone 8b TX
15 years ago
are you sure the one you replaced the old one with was actually a DVD burner and not just a DVD reader? There are combo drives that do CD read+ write and only DVD read.

I would run belarc advisor and see what it tells about that drive.
Belarc'
owbist
15 years ago
Bob if you use XP then the computer will not recognise blank DVDs. XP is not capable of that, Vista is. Your new DVD burner should have come with proprietary software anyway unless you bought OEM equipment.

There is an excellent freebie I use called Deep Burner, plus plenty of others too.
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Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks for your imput Owbist and Ravencajun.

I've done some more searching and finding. Appears that the LG internal DVD/CD I installed is a bit problematic. And yes, it does, sometimes anyway, recognize blank DVD. Last evening I was playing with it and inserted a blank DVD-R. It recognized it. Then I started a process to move a folder of 2+ Gb of photographs to it. At the point where it said click here to copy, I exited the process. Then the drive did not recognize the blank DVD. So, I put the DVD in my external burner, which is also an LG, and it recognized it.

Rather than continue to troubleshoot and reseach ad infinitum, I'm just going to replace the drive.

Again, thanks for your imput.

Bob
Central Arizona

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