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Combo Drive Problems
Hi Guys-
I'll try to give as much relevant detail as I can, so sorry if this is long. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop with a Toshiba DVD-Rom SD-R2002 DVD/CD-RW combo drive. I have a 1.0g processor, I believe Pentium III, 128mb SDRAM, and I run Windows ME. My problem is that I can no longer burn CDs and I can't figure out why. I used to be able to and then it quit. I think I have buffer underruns. The "used-read buffer" always fills up and then the "burn process failed" error comes up (on Nero). I also tried using Roxio, but with no better luck. I did not have both burning programs installed at the same time. My drive plays audio and data CDs and DVDS just fine. Things I have tried: reinstalling the drive, reinstalling burning software, slowing down the transfer rate, enabling/disabling DMA, changing the cache size, disk-at-once, track-at-once, burning images, and closing all other applications while burning. I am at my wits end. I have a couple questions. 1. What can I do to fix this? 2. Would an external CD-RW have the same problem? I don't have a lot of money if it is a bad drive. Thanks for your help, and feel free to ask for any additional information necessary to help me.
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