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Computer Hardware Problems-CD Writer
N/A | 6/29/05 | Me

Posted on 06/29/2005 9:33:20 PM PDT by Brett66

I have a 1.8 GHZ XP 2500 with two hard drives on the primary IDE channel and a DVD writer and CD writer on the secondary channel. The DVD writer is the master and the CD writer is the slave.

I burned data to a CD on a CD-RW media and my CD writer doesn't see anything on the CD, I put the CD in my DVD drive and it sees the files on the disc. Of course, the data doesn't show up on other CD players that I've tried on separate computers either, it just shows up on the DVD drive, it won't even show the files on the CD writer that wrote the files! It doesn't make any sense.

I tried using the native Windows XP CD writing utility and I've used NERO. It does write these files to the disc, but they are invisible on everything except my DVD drive. What is going on here?


TOPICS: Technical
KEYWORDS: callthegeeksquad; cd; computer; thisissonotnews

1 posted on 06/29/2005 9:33:20 PM PDT by Brett66
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To: Brett66

It sounds like you *thought* you had a disc in the CD writer when it was in the DVD.


2 posted on 06/29/2005 9:37:33 PM PDT by Don W (Whatever has form-man or machine-has mortality. It is only a matter of time)
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To: Brett66

I never put optical drives on the same cable.


3 posted on 06/29/2005 9:38:40 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Brett66

Make your HDs masters and your optical devices slaves on seperate channels. Better performance.


4 posted on 06/29/2005 9:42:27 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: Brett66

make sure you are using cd-r in the cd-writer... maybe put a blank dvd in the dvd burner and thats what happened? your dvd burner will also burn cd-r's


5 posted on 06/29/2005 9:43:09 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Brett66
From Wikipedia - "CD-RW discs are non-standard, in that they do not meet the Orange Book standards for CDs. Hence CD-RW media cannot be read by CD-ROM drives built prior to 1997 due to the reduced reflectivity (15% compared to 70%) of CD-RW media."
6 posted on 06/29/2005 9:44:06 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: Brett66

DOH! the guy in the post before this is right... I misread your post cd-rw media... make sure you clear it first.


7 posted on 06/29/2005 9:55:00 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: HAL9000

Hmmm, maybe I'll try writing a CD-R and see if that behaves better, but my CD writer is a 2002 model and it won't even read the media after it writes to it.


8 posted on 06/29/2005 9:55:08 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Brett66

If you are writing in UDF format you need to install the UDF reader. I'm thinking its a format problem.


9 posted on 06/29/2005 9:57:22 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: Brett66

My DVD writer is a CD/DVD writer, I might not have made that clear in my post.


10 posted on 06/29/2005 9:57:32 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: cabojoe

Does Nero default to the UDF format? I'll have to check that, but my CD/DVD writer does see the files.


11 posted on 06/29/2005 9:58:35 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Brett66

Also make sure you closed the disc after writing it. If you left it open other drives won't be able to read it.


12 posted on 06/29/2005 10:00:23 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: Brett66

Also try closing the disc. You select that when you burn the CD in most programs. It is worth a try. You often have to do that to read the CD on some other computers.


13 posted on 06/29/2005 10:02:35 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Brett66

A lot of software out there doesn't automaticly close the disk.

Their is disk information your other drive is expecting to find in order to read your disk.

Put in back in the writer and look for a command to close the disk. Then it will be readable to any other CD Writer. CD Writers don't read the CDs quite the same.


14 posted on 06/29/2005 10:16:45 PM PDT by dila813
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To: All

Well, I tried some CD-R media and that seems to work just fine, it read on my other computer. I don't see why it could write to the CD-RW media, but wouldn't read it. It was older 4X max write speed RW media, I might have to toss all of it. The drive should've been able to read it though. Oh well, I guess I'll use the discs as coasters.


15 posted on 06/29/2005 11:10:20 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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