Please help, My CD drive won't reconize burned CD's or photo cd's.?

Question

My CD drive used to read my photo cd's and play burned CD's with no problems until my husband tried burning a CD from a playlist in itunes. Now it won't recognize any burned or photo cd's. After inserting the disk, a window's media player box pops up and says what do you want to do with this blank CD. What could of happened?

Also like to note..... The drive is still able to read commercially bought music CDs just fine. Also, the already burned music cds the drive no longer interperets, as having info, were burned from a Sony CD Burner Component and were not burned from my very computer. These very burned cds used to load just fine before the attempted itunes playlist burn. I'm absolutely positive of that. Could the driver be bad and still read commercially made music cds? When I say drive, I guess it goes without saying that these previously burned cds will no longer read on my itunes, windows media player or my Acer computer's music program. In other words....nowhere.

Answer 1

Hi... try to read the same disc from another computer or another drive on the same system to make sure it is not blank. I do mix up mine with blank ones accidentally so many times :(

If you can view the contents from different places, contact your vendor if still under warranty as the drive has gone faulty. Otherwise, try to re-burn the disc.

I doubt burning itunes playlist has caused this unless a poor quality of disc is used which could damage the drive.


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I dont get it. Do you have another CD or DVD drive? if you do, have you tried reading the disc from there?

Most cases, bad driver does not allow you to read anything at all however bad drive (device) may read certain types of media only for instance cd only not dvd.

Additionally, CD or DVD drives do not normally need a different driver other than the XP has, in other words, they are all plug n play. To reinstall the driver in XP, go to Control Panel and open up System applet. Then go to Hardware tab to open Device Manager window. Expand DVD/CD-ROM Drives then right-click your drive and select uninstall. After that go to Action on the top and click on Scan for hardware changes. This will refresh the driver.

Answer 2

Unable read burnt CD/DVD

If the Customer is unable to read the CD/DVD burnt from other systems or in the same system, while those CDs are working fine in other Computers, then it might be due to incompatibilities. To check the Medias supported by Customer's Notebook CD/DVD Drive, download and install and run the Nero Info Utility.

It is available at the following link :

http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/eng/Info_Tool.html

or

http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Info_Tool.html

Installing this Utility will give you the exact information about the types of drives installed in your system and the type of DVDs and CDs that the drive supports

Good Luck and Happy Browsing
Regards,
Prasad.

Answer 3

My HP pavilion Desktop Wont Burn DVD's or cd's i think its just a HP Pavilion Programing Glitch

Answer 4

Maybe the reason your music didn't (record) onto your CDs because it was done incorrectly, or your system isn't able to. But then, if you are talking about photos copied----they need to be downloaded to a Recordable DVD. Maybe your CD's and DVDs are getting you a little confused. Good Luck

Answer 5

When your in your burner program, under settings ,when burning ,make sure you are "finalizing" - or "closing" the cd...this puts the index on the disk, and makes it readable on other devices. Its probubly set on" dont finalize, add more later"., so it comes up as "no data " ,etc.

Answer 6

try burning the cds at a slower speed, this might solve your problem.

Answer 7

set up you cd drive's driver again . scan the virus .if it is not do fix you cd driver .it is bad.