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My burner wont detect mynew burning cds and they always worked until this morning when i was burning a DATA disk of music for my sterio but then my internet was connecting to the network i think it made my comp freeze but i still saw the red light on my drive telling me its bruning... so i watied 10 mins and no green light.... so i presed the reset button and windows restarted and when i tried burning againg witha NEW cd it wont detect any cd i put in it!



WEll this oneis less important... my cd is like really scratched and i want ot make it work againg... Starwars Battlefront 2... and it wont play on my PS2.... Any help?



Please guys... I would really appreaciate if anyone helps me with my tech issues... especially my burner problem... Thanks

Is the red light still on? I would assume no but I had to ask anyways.

Um before i forced restart it was on!


I think i up the burner? Or maybe there is a way to fix it.?

What do you mean "wont detect any cd you put it in?"

Does Windows even detect the drive..?

What cd burner model is it? You could try reinstalling and updating the driver / updating the firmware / etc.


There are dvd/cd cleaners/restorers. My sister has one and she likes it... I tried used it on a blockbuster disk and it seemed to screw the movie and game up more. Good thing I got to take it back.

Video game stores have more professional (I would assume) cd cleaners/restorers... but they charge you like $5. Try calling around.

for your cd burner id do what the other people said and try to reinstall the stuff

As for your disk ive heard of a bunch of meathods like putting toothpaste on the disk... I myself have never tried any of these but they could possibally work

Yeah... cover the cd with toothpaste and let it dry. Wash it off in the morning. Not too sure if it helps myself.

(At least I heard you should dry it... http://www.lifehacker.com/software/cds/mac...aste-155741.php )
http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/apr06/arti...larity/tips.htm - says not to use toothpaste

Ok... Thx for the Cd tips... Now.. The burner is part of the system... the thing is it wont detect any "virgin" disks.... after i had to force restarted cuz the burning crashed my comp and i think i screwerd up the burner... is there a way to repair it or fix it up.....

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Death how can i know/tell if my drive is detected anymore? or if it is?

If your cd drive was drive F... check to see if there is still a drive F
(open My computer... is the burner listed?)

I'm having something similar. I got a new cd writer/burner or whatever and one day it just stoped writing CDs. It's like a plain CD-rom, it does read CDs but doesn't detect blanks. I put the temporal files in, put a blank in, click write these files to CD and it says "please insert a blank CD". Lol it's really lame.

I wonder when my burner turned into a plain CD-rom.

YEAH! THAT IT! That happen after i rebooted my comp while it was burning cuz it crashed! So.. any help?

Put a disk into the drive and try to open the drive that your burner is. If this works you can probably just insert stuff onto it manually and go from there

If you have tried this already and it doesnt work than I dont know

so... nothing up yet..... i tried system restore and it wont for SH:ranting:T ....

I asked in yahoo awnsers and nothing.... i think im screwed.... PLEASE GUYS!

Did your computer come with any type of disk for your burn drive?

Pics.

yes it came witha nero install disk... do i reinstall the program?

lol



Its worth a shot

Is your burner an after market or did it come with the computer?

When my old HD died, I just brought my PC to my pirate and gave him ~100$. He put a burner and new 120Gb HD it it and installed all the software I would need like windows and crap.

Did it ever work? or did it just stop working?

For some reason, my windows stoped recognizing it as a burner. It worked, and one day it shows as a plain CD-rom. Maybe I did something wrong. You see I have a bunch of virtual drives. 2 drives with daemon tools and 1 with alcohol 120%. I think it might be 120% screwing with something. Because it forced me to have another virtual drive, I don't even use it lol.

Possibally but Daemon tools freaked up my computer when I put it on to play SC beta

OK MY BURNER WORKS! I FIGURED OUT HOW U CAN MAKE IT WORK AGAING!

Unplug all ur pc and then uncrew it open.... then.... inside ur burner cd rom unplug the bigwide cable and plug it back in... and the other ones do same thang.... replug em in... dont worry i think cuz there not connected right or they need a replug.... like cable tv.... then screw ur tower back up and try it! make sure u switch the comp off. Remeber!

There are 3 Wires on ur CD burner rom.... Unplug em and plug em back in tight in.

1 look small, other medium ,then a big ============= that wide plug. and plug everything back. Screw it back and TADA! try ur blanks now!

Well im glad you fixed it but what led you to try this ?

Now for the easier problem - Your CD you can be daring and try toothpaste or try something else

lol... this is funny... Yeah, you unconnected an IDE cable, a 4pin molex, and a Audio to CD drive cable thing..(I honestly have NO CLUE what this is called, but it connects your sound card to your CD/DVD drive..)

Bah, I'm to lazy to open my PC.