Hi all, I have a problem with my DVD writer/reader lately. Its an in-built DVD burner that comes with my HP notebook and the burning software I am currently using is "Sonic" which also comes pre-installed in my notebook. It has always been working fine until recently. I burnt a disc with mixed content as usual (videos, MP3, pictures) using the Data module. The recording went on well and was successfully completed according to the "Sonic" software.
However, I could not get the drive to read the DVD which it just burnt. Each time I inserted the DVD, the orange indicator light on my burner will remain on (the usual scenario is for the indicator light to blink while the disc is being read), and the sound of the disc rotating could not be heard. On Windows Explorer my DVD drive also shows up to be empty as if no disc has been loaded. I will usually wait for a while, beyond the time that is needed for a disc to usaully load but still no sound of the disc being read is heard and the orange light remains on as if frozen.
The rewritable disc I used is Imation's DVD-R disc which I have been using all along recently. The other Imation discs (from the same batch I bought) I have burnt with the same burner can be read just fine. I loaded the disc repeatedly into my burner over the next several days but the same result prevailed. Judging it to be the fault of that particular disc, I used another new Imation disc to burn the same content again.
To my dismay the same thing happened again. The burning procedure completed just fine but it can't be read, no matter how many times I have tried. The contents in the disc are nothing special, just the usual stuff I always burn.
The final step I tried was to load the burnt disc into another computer, this time it can be read, the contents extracted and viewed. But when I loaded it into the notebook's drive again. The drive acted as if nothing's been loaded. However, when I loaded in older discs which I have burnt, or commercial video discs, they can be read just fine. I'm really baffled, please help me out here thanks alot
However, I could not get the drive to read the DVD which it just burnt. Each time I inserted the DVD, the orange indicator light on my burner will remain on (the usual scenario is for the indicator light to blink while the disc is being read), and the sound of the disc rotating could not be heard. On Windows Explorer my DVD drive also shows up to be empty as if no disc has been loaded. I will usually wait for a while, beyond the time that is needed for a disc to usaully load but still no sound of the disc being read is heard and the orange light remains on as if frozen.
The rewritable disc I used is Imation's DVD-R disc which I have been using all along recently. The other Imation discs (from the same batch I bought) I have burnt with the same burner can be read just fine. I loaded the disc repeatedly into my burner over the next several days but the same result prevailed. Judging it to be the fault of that particular disc, I used another new Imation disc to burn the same content again.
To my dismay the same thing happened again. The burning procedure completed just fine but it can't be read, no matter how many times I have tried. The contents in the disc are nothing special, just the usual stuff I always burn.
The final step I tried was to load the burnt disc into another computer, this time it can be read, the contents extracted and viewed. But when I loaded it into the notebook's drive again. The drive acted as if nothing's been loaded. However, when I loaded in older discs which I have burnt, or commercial video discs, they can be read just fine. I'm really baffled, please help me out here thanks alot
