The cd burner on my computer will not burn cd's anymore. Its a combo 16xcd-rw/DVD on an hp pavilion 533w running XP professional. I have tried many differant things to fix it with no luck. I just found a few trojan viruses recently with avg and also some spyware with SpybotSAD and Ad-aware SE (maybe someone screwed something up.) I have reinstalled the drivers for it (even removed highfilters and lowfilters from the registry,) and reinstalled Nero (my cd burning software.) I have tried drag-and-drop burning and even tried burning at a slower speed. I checked the cables and disconnected and reconnected the drive (even hooked it to a different power source.) I also airdusted the sh*t out of it. It still reads cd's and dvd's just fine, just won't burn. I am probably gonna buy a new drive but want to make sure its not a software problem first. Any Ideas? It worked fine three days ago!
2006-11-03 21:04:26 · 2 answers · asked by Jeremy 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I had a problem like you where it worked fine for a while and then it just stopped working.
I went on the manufacturer's web site and downloaded the latest firmware. After updating the firmware, it just started working again.
2006-11-03 23:11:46 · answer #1 · answered by thepinky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you can reformat and reload all progarms.I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some RAM/ hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
I can also give a few links that offer free virus and spyware removers...!You may be having a virus or spyware installed on your PC. Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html
2006-11-04 18:55:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋