Posted: 10/28/2011 4:42:22 PM EDT
I have an older Dell Dimensions 2400 desktop with a Teac DVD+RW DV-W58E DVD burner. I would say I have burnt well over 300 movies in the past few years with it, I try to use a lens cleaning disc every few months. For burning software I use ANyDVD version 6.8.8.0 and Clone DVD 2. The last few DVD's I have tried to burn process fine, I get the message that the burn was a success and yet when I try to view them there is no data on the disc. 
Does anyone have any idea why the DVD's are not burning? Do the burners ever wear out? This is really frustrating because I burn 4-6 movies a week, those I don't keep I send over to the sandbox for the Troops. ANY advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 
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| No dice on the "burnt" disc being read in another device. I have a disc in the burner drive now I got from Netflix and alls the drive is doing is humming very loudly. When I go to My Computer and try to see what disc is listed nothing shows up. Sorry, I am not that computer savvy and I am tired as hell. |
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I've never really understood what the 'lens cleaning' discs do other than move money from someone's wallet. I don't know if that is the cause but something to think about...I've never used one and have (so far) never had a general failure of an optical disk drive.
Anyway, I wonder if you are somehow now triggering the 'dummy mode' ( I forget exactly what the term is, but it's a dry run or simulation mode that many CD/DVD programs have so that you can confirm that the disc will burn correctly without wasting a blank). If you were getting discs that were in fact written but don't work in other drives then I'd suspect the computer drive. If the blank has not been touched at all, then I think it's a software (configuration/settings) issue. ETA: It's possible that the device (the disc drive) needs to be removed from device manager with a reboot after to reinstall the drivers (perhaps something has been damaged in the Windows configuration). I'd check the burner software settings first, though. ETA 2: If you look at a blank, and compare it to a written disc, you can see where the data tracks have been laid down on the burnt disc. Are any tracks being laid down? (you may need to tilt the disc under various lights to see the difference, but it's very clear once you spot it) |
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Quoted: I've never really understood what the 'lens cleaning' discs do other than move money from someone's wallet. I don't know if that is the cause but something to think about...I've never used one and have (so far) never had a general failure of an optical disk drive. Anyway, I wonder if you are somehow now triggering the 'dummy mode' ( I forget exactly what the term is, but it's a dry run or simulation mode that many CD/DVD programs have so that you can confirm that the disc will burn correctly without wasting a blank). If you were getting discs that were in fact written but don't work in other drives then I'd suspect the computer drive. If the blank has not been touched at all, then I think it's a software (configuration/settings) issue. ETA: It's possible that the device (the disc drive) needs to be removed from device manager with a reboot after to reinstall the drivers (perhaps something has been damaged in the Windows configuration). I'd check the burner software settings first, though. ETA 2: If you look at a blank, and compare it to a written disc, you can see where the data tracks have been laid down on the burnt disc. Are any tracks being laid down? (you may need to tilt the disc under various lights to see the difference, but it's very clear once you spot it) Lens cleaning disks actually have little tiny brushes imbedded in the disk. It plays a track saying "The disk cleaning will happen now, it will take a few minutes" then it's quiet for 3 minutes because the machine is "reading" where the brushes are. After it finishes there's another track that says "Disk cleaning is finished" or somethin like that. |
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<snippage> Lens cleaning disks actually have little tiny brushes imbedded in the disk. It plays a track saying "The disk cleaning will happen now, it will take a few minutes" then it's quiet for 3 minutes because the machine is "reading" where the brushes are. After it finishes there's another track that says "Disk cleaning is finished" or somethin like that. Thanks. I've never seen one out of the package and didn't know how they do their magic as I've had CD burners since the days when 2x speed was hot shit, and never needed to use a cleaning disc. |
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The discs are blank that I am using to burn. If the disc was bad AnyDVD would pop an error message saying to insert a blank disc. If they are 100% blank to begin with, and are also 100% blank afterwards then please confirm. If they come out of the burn process with some writing on them that isn't readable that is different from them coming out of the burn process still being 100% blank. |
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The discs are blank that I am using to burn. If the disc was bad AnyDVD would pop an error message saying to insert a blank disc. If they are 100% blank to begin with, and are also 100% blank afterwards then please confirm. If they come out of the burn process with some writing on them that isn't readable that is different from them coming out of the burn process still being 100% blank. Something has been "written" onto the dics but it won't play, no matter what device I use. You can actually see on the back of the dics 98% of it has been used. |
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Whatever the solution... I'd change your posts to reflect how you're burning personal movies that you've shot and edited, which you then send to other people. That's what you meant you are doing, right? Yeah, that's the ticket. I'm a regular Cecile B DeMille.
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seriously they are like 30 bucks now.
get a new one. I eat one every 4 or 5 years and I don't burn as much stuff as you seem to. Takes like 5 min to pull one out and put in another. there are 2 types of connectors out there. SATA and IDE. IF you don't know, then pull your old one out, run up to fry's or comp usa and ask them for a replacement. should be 4 screws holding it in and it pushes out the front. power and a data ribbon across the back. or 2 red plugs. really depends on how old as to which it is going to have. about 05 I think is when they started to show up, but dvd's didn't become SATA as a standard till about 07 or so. |
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seriously they are like 30 bucks now. get a new one. I eat one every 4 or 5 years and I don't burn as much stuff as you seem to. Takes like 5 min to pull one out and put in another. there are 2 types of connectors out there. SATA and IDE. IF you don't know, then pull your old one out, run up to fry's or comp usa and ask them for a replacement. should be 4 screws holding it in and it pushes out the front. power and a data ribbon across the back. or 2 red plugs. really depends on how old as to which it is going to have. about 05 I think is when they started to show up, but dvd's didn't become SATA as a standard till about 07 or so. I've got a new one on order now, I bought the PC new from Dell in 05 so it should be a IDE correct? |