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Hmm, this is a strange one indeed.

One thing for sure, you're not doing anything wrong

It's difficult to know where to start to diagnose the problem. If the exact discs have worked before (but the PC required rebooting and then set burning to 1x), I doubt it's the disc. If you have tried using verbatim branded media, that should be fine and no writer should throw a wobble with expensive "proper" media.

Can the drive read discs fine? It's worth making sure the problem is "writing" to the drive and not just accessing data from it.

It may be worth seeing if there's an updated firmware for the drive. A quick google lists it as a BTC drive with a review here.

I'd have a go at updating the firmware of the drive and see if that helps. If you got the drive soon after it came out, it may have a buggy firmware which is giving you writing problems.

While you're at it, you could get an "unofficial" firmware which would probably improve the drive's performance and make it RPC-1, i.e. region free Take a look here. If you want more info, just post away and I'll do my best to help (like for XP )

Hmm' date=' this is a strange one indeed.

One thing for sure, you're not doing anything wrong

It's difficult to know where to start to diagnose the problem. If the exact discs have worked before (but the PC required rebooting and then set burning to 1x), I doubt it's the disc. If you have tried using verbatim branded media, that should be fine and no writer should throw a wobble with expensive "proper" media.

Can the drive read discs fine? It's worth making sure the problem is "writing" to the drive and not just accessing data from it.

It may be worth seeing if there's an updated firmware for the drive. A quick google lists it as a BTC drive with a review here.

I'd have a go at updating the firmware of the drive and see if that helps. If you got the drive soon after it came out, it may have a buggy firmware which is giving you writing problems.

While you're at it, you could get an "unofficial" firmware which would probably improve the drive's performance and make it RPC-1, i.e. region free Take a look here. If you want more info, just post away and I'll do my best to help (like for XP )

Thanks for the help. To be honest I don't think the DVD write part ever worked right, I always thought it was my fault. But since there is never any issues with CD's I assume theres a problem with the drive. It just doesn't seem to want to do anything now. Is the CD writer and DVD writer seperate inside the drive ?

I know someone very well where I bought it so I might give them a shout tomorrow (I'd be afraid of messing it up). I did initially have problems with the DVD drive. I can't remember if they changed it or it was connected wrong (I remember you were helping me with it).

It's the same laser that reads and writes.

If the drive has always been dodgy, I'd check the firmware. As you say though, if you bought if from a trusted person, check it out with him. Maybe he might shed some light on what to try

It's the same laser that reads and writes.

If the drive has always been dodgy' date=' I'd check the firmware. As you say though, if you bought if from a trusted person, check it out with him. Maybe he might shed some light on what to try [/quote']

I downloaded & installed the lastest firmware from the BTC site.

Everything was looking good as it went through the whole burn process and said it was complete, I then tried to open up what was saved on the disk and theres nothing in there :( . Earlier on when I tried it there was nothing it in then for some reason when I went back in again it was there ... mega :confused: . Now it just doesn't see anything. Maybe the drive is a bit dodgy.

I downloaded & installed the lastest firmware from the BTC site.

Everything was looking good as it went through the whole burn process and said it was complete' date=' I then tried to open up what was saved on the disk and theres nothing in there :( . Earlier on when I tried it there was nothing it in then for some reason when I went back in again it was there ... mega :confused: . Now it just doesn't see anything. Maybe the drive is a bit dodgy.[/quote']

I think its okay now, I found if I opened the drive and closed it again that everything is reading as it was burned. So I re-enable the open drive after burning option. The process must not be actually finished until the drive opens.

Looks like the firmware update has done the trick, Thanks tfboy .

Glad it's working.

Better try a few discs though before shouting victory

Glad it's working.

Better try a few discs though before shouting victory

I have , I tried 5 discs last night without any problems (Basically I was backing up PC stuff onto RW discs)