won't stop reading

[tagguer]

I'm tryin g to burn a cd after I put in a blank cd it tryies to read it and won't stop trying to read it. How do I stop it from reading so i can burn?

 

[chrisalviola]

if its keep on reading the disk, the disk must be damaged or the read head of your cd rom must be dirty.

 

[JamesBart]

ive had problems like this before and i just used different discs. and also what cd drive do you have and what discs are you using? there may be some incompatibility somewhere.

 

[heyman421]

this sounds like my plextors when they started crapping out

i had 3 plextor 16x drives die on me, supposedly because of my less-than-adequate power supply

plextor was always my favorite brand, too

they'd stop reading blank media, sometimes i would have to eject and reload 2 or 3 times before they'd read, and eventually they stopped reading discs altogether

firmware flashes would sometimes fix them for a day or so, but then they'd start acting fussy again