Burner doesn't work
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It could well be the data cable for the drive or the drive itself seeing the actual problem. Try booting off of a disk with it to see if anything loads. That will show if the lazer in the drive is still good or has failed. A simple swap of a bad cable and suddenly seeing the drive work fully is another item.
Since it happen after you unchecked some items in msconfig I dont think its a IDE/sata cable, long road to nowhere
.Go back into msconfig and recheck everything and see if it works. Msconfig is really for trouble shooting, not as a permanent fix for start up items. Most programs have settings in there options to uncheck for starting up with windows.
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Now that moron has offered his nonsense besides a possible bad data cable which is more commonly seen especially with flat ribbon type ide cables most burning programs can be started manually for burning a disk since most do not auto load with Windows. The one particular exception to that being Roxio's Easy Media Creator.
The way of preventing any program for burning a disk in the msconfig if that's what you mean by "System Config" would be disabling any necessary background services for Windows in the services tab not the startup group.
The way of preventing any program for burning a disk in the msconfig if that's what you mean by "System Config" would be disabling any necessary background services for Windows in the services tab not the startup group.
Talk about a Moron, the guy unchecked some stuff and his burner stopped working. And you tell him to check his (cable).
This is your usual drag them around by the knuckles till they bleed theme B/S. Then you start off on a incoherent rant! Showing alot of intelligents there PC Tech250/PC eye.
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Who you taking to now? Yourself? or simply digging at straws again?
You seem to forget real fast that a lazer can go in a drive at any time as well as seeing a flaky cable act up. As far as the msconfig is concerned disabling items in the services tab without first checking off the "hide all microsoft services" box is asking for problems.
The question for drewski at this point would be can you still read from disks when inserted into the optical drive? Here I can go into the msconfig at any time and uncheck everything and still see disks burned with various programs.
You seem to forget real fast that a lazer can go in a drive at any time as well as seeing a flaky cable act up. As far as the msconfig is concerned disabling items in the services tab without first checking off the "hide all microsoft services" box is asking for problems.
The question for drewski at this point would be can you still read from disks when inserted into the optical drive? Here I can go into the msconfig at any time and uncheck everything and still see disks burned with various programs.
Who you taking to now? Yourself? or simply digging at straws again?
You seem to forget real fast that a lazer can go in a drive at any time as well as seeing a flaky cable act up. As far as the msconfig is concerned disabling items in the services tab without first checking off the "hide all microsoft services" box is asking for problems.
The question for drewski at this point would be can you still read from disks when inserted into the optical drive? Here I can go into the msconfig at any time and uncheck everything and still see disks burned with various programs.
Like I said, Then you start off on a incoherent rant!
That's simply due to you not having enough grey matter to comprehend anyways.
Is that why your sole purpose for posting is to trash one thread after another?
What is it with you. I really believe something is wrong with the way you comprehend things or understand them. It seems to be a common thing with you and you just flat out make things up too.
Like I said in post #7
Like I said in post #7
There is (really) something wrong with you!
Been drinking too much of that hill billy stuff tonight? figures!
I'll wait for drewski's reply rather then satifying your nonsense.
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Ya man i mean how the hell did this get so outta control? If my breaks went out on my car i wouldn't change my headlights first? But ya all this msconfig and IDE cables could be the problem but checking on everything he checked off would definetly seem like the best thing to do first rather than doing all these hardware things first. Plus its alot easy to click a mouse than it is to change a cable, not that either of them are hard but. . . you guys know what i mean ha
Oh ps just remember. . . Fighting on the internet is like the special olympics, even if you win, you're still retarded. . . sorry if that offended anyone but it totally works
Oh ps just remember. . . Fighting on the internet is like the special olympics, even if you win, you're still retarded. . . sorry if that offended anyone but it totally works
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I can tell you a little story about one dvd burner that could read any disk. When going to boot off of the Vista dvd or even a live distro nothing! A few times the system was shut off entirely then suddenly it would boot. So much for a flaky cable that worked when it wanted to. Yet the drive was plainly seen in Windows at all times.
The question about being able to read any disks is simply to find out if the only disks put in the drive were simply more blank media. The drive tray will still work.
Another drewski can try since I ran into a similar problem without even disabling anything in the msconfig with the free version of BurnOn. After 3 or 4 reliable burns in XP it suddenly wouldn't burn anything. Reinstall and see 3 or 4 more good burns then stalls again.
Solution? Tossed the XP disk in by chance one day and ran the system file checker. The next attempt when seeing the XP disk get busy was to try again. Disk #5 suddenly burned without hesitation.
Roxio was even worse. If you disabled that in the msconfig a manual start would see no results. That required being loaded along with Windows while most burning programs simply startup after Windows is loaded and then going to use them.
You'll note drewski stated different programs not just one. Besides having made them inactive another thing to consider is simply running into some bad blank media. There it won't matter what program is used nothing will burn. You have to look at more then just one thing and think that is absolutely the cause without first finding out just what is preventing what types of disks for what type of burns by what programs?
That isn't found in the msconfig utility. To see if that is running you go to the Run command prompt on the Start menu and type "services.msc" there. When the services screen appears you double click on the Imap cd burning com service item and then click start in the general tab.
Even when set at manual you can't burn any disks. You want that set to automatic.
Even when set at manual you can't burn any disks. You want that set to automatic.
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