CD Burner

My CD Burner dosent work anymore. It hasnt worked for a while so I bought an
external burner & now its stopped working too. I dont know if my computer is
somehow messing up the drives. When I look at the properties, it says the
drives (both E & F ) are working properly but neither will recognize a cd &
I've already tried uninstalling & windows automatically reinstalled them for
me. HELP ME PLEASE b4 I spend more on another burner.

M
Fri Apr 11 01:35:09 PDT 2008


"mluv21" <mluv21@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9069F4E-5395-460D-B5A1-4A317E7A1D65@microsoft.com...
> My CD Burner dosent work anymore. It hasnt worked for a while so I bought
> an
> external burner & now its stopped working too. I dont know if my computer
> is
> somehow messing up the drives. When I look at the properties, it says the
> drives (both E & F ) are working properly but neither will recognize a cd
> &
> I've already tried uninstalling & windows automatically reinstalled them
> for
> me. HELP ME PLEASE b4 I spend more on another burner.

You don't say how old each burner is, but I assume they are out of warranty
(otherwise you'ld take them back). Unfortunately the laser in these devices
has a finite life (it's a fact of solid state lasers). That life can vary
consideably between examples, but can easily be less than a couple of years.
Laser deterioration is the single most common failure mode of CD and DVD
drives - the burners being worse because the lasers operate at a much higher
power density.

DVD/CD burners are not exactly expensive these days.

smlunatick
Fri Apr 11 08:55:51 PDT 2008

On Apr 11, 4:35=A0am, "M.I.5=BE" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
> "mluv21" <mlu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> news:A9069F4E-5395-460D-B5A1-4A317E7A1D65@microsoft.com...
>
> > My CD Burner dosent work anymore. It hasnt worked for a while so I bough=
t
> > an
> > external burner & now its stopped working too. I dont know if my compute=
r
> > is
> > somehow messing up the drives. When I look at the properties, it says th=
e
> > drives (both E & F ) are working properly but neither will recognize a c=
d
> > &
> > I've already tried uninstalling & windows automatically reinstalled them=

> > for
> > me. HELP ME PLEASE b4 I spend more on another burner.
>
> You don't say how old each burner is, but I assume they are out of warrant=
y
> (otherwise you'ld take them back). =A0Unfortunately the laser in these dev=
ices
> has a finite life (it's a fact of solid state lasers). =A0That life can va=
ry
> consideably between examples, but can easily be less than a couple of year=
s.
> Laser deterioration is the single most common failure mode of CD and DVD
> drives - the burners being worse because the lasers operate at a much high=
er
> power density.
>
> DVD/CD burners are not exactly expensive these days.

The first thing that should normally be checked is that the
"Recording" options (Right Click on the drive icon in My Computer) are
set to let Desktop Recording.