CD RW Problem

[kranich]

Thought I would throw this out. I have a run of the mill CD-RW drive (Phillips). I was burning a CD for my kids and while recording one song I received a message from Roxio CD creator that there were errors on the disk. So I changed the disk and went to do it again and received the same message. So I removed the song that seemed to be causing the error and recorded the CD again. I walked away during the process and when I returned the CD drive was just spinning. I rebooted and tried to read several different disks but it keeps saying, “please insert a disk”. I tried unloading and reloading the drivers and checked device manager, which shows no errors, but it does not want to read. Has anyone else sent his problem and if so can you offer any insight? I will replace it if necessary but just anted to ask anyway. It seems weird that the “Hamster Dance” would fry a CD drive.

[bailey]

maybe the lens needs cleanning

[Bill in SD, CA]

You might try and remove the drive in Device Manager and re-boot and let it re-install.

Bill

[VHockey86]

I having similar problems with my MSI drive recently. I was inclined to think the drive was just giong bad but maybe cleaning it is worth a shot.

Is there any way to clean the lens without taking the whole drive apart? Would I just be able to spray some compressed air inside the drive or would that just cause more problems?

[butch81385]

i would suggest one of those cleaning cds... but dont be cheap when buying it. a $1 cleaning cd wont do the job as well as a $5 and definitely not as well as a $10 or more

[miriam]

I have the sent problem from time to time. I also get the message please insert the disk after the disk was already in. What happens to mine is that i have a cd and a cdr drive. One drive is D and the other is E I have to change the drive letter from D to E or vice versa and im able to record.

[Bovon]

It sounds to me like the laser is dead or dying. It could be low power, if your PSU is marginal..by what you have described is a classic result reported when the laser is gone south.

When a CD is placed in the drive and access of the data is attempted..and you get the error to put a disk in the drive simply means the drive cannot read the tracks at all. It must first find the tracks on a CD in the drive or it thinks the drive is either empty or you have put a blank CD in the drive and the written tracks cannot be read.

[consumertalks]

It might be another mp3 besides the Hampster Dance. Some mp3's from p2p networks are corrupted, but still play on your computer. The conversion to a .wav file to burn the cd can't be done if the file is corrupted.

Imagine opening a spreadsheet with (somehow) a broken table. You can still see it, broken table and all, but if you try to convert it to a different document type, the conversion can't be done as the original file parameters aren't there.. so it can't be converted.

Or, maybe it's Frank Stallone.