Drives not reading discs

Zampa · 30 Apr 2006

Ok Bandidos..try this..

Tried to record some music onto disc for the mrs tonight (nice bit of late 60's and 70's Ska and rock steady..ok ok thats irrelevent!!)...got a whole new box of blank cd-r's (jvc specific for music) put one in, done the neccessary in Media player...hit burn...it kept coming up asking me to put a cd in the drive...

Tried doing it using Nero but it doesnt recognise wma files apparently..tried to do it with some photos instead (in nero) again it asked for a cd-r

Next...I put in a cd that I know to have pix on it..in both my cd rw drive and DVD drive...again same problem..it did not recognise there was anything in it..

Now the twist...both drive play music cd's fine..

Over to you...

gcol · 30 Apr 2006

Plan A.
In "my computer", right click on one of the cd drives and select "properties" then "recording". Make sure "enable cd recording" is ticked.

Zampa · 1 May 2006

Yep checked that..

plan b?..

JohnD · 1 May 2006

Have you by any chance recently upgraded to Windows XP? When I did, I found it was incompatible with my Roxio CD Writer apps.

Zampa · 1 May 2006

Interesting point..I did upgrade but that was back in November and I have viewed pix since then

Downloaded roxio last night but its still asking for a disc.

2scoops0406 · 1 May 2006

Try the discs in a different machine, some CD recorders are picky about which CD-R's they can record onto.

gcol · 1 May 2006

Plan B.

Start,
Run,
Type "services.msc" then click ok
find Imapi cd-burning com service and make sure it doesn't say disabled. If it does, change it to automatic.
reboot pc.

JohnD · 1 May 2006

If it says "manual" is that significant?

gcol · 1 May 2006

Not really - mine's set at manual and works fine. It'll start when a program requests it. I just thought that with Zampa having some problems with it it might help matters starting it rather than having it just start up when you want it.

Drives not reading discs

2scoops0406

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