CD burner not working with cd-rw anymore

[Duncan MacGregor]

You should try to re-use a CDRW disk that you wrote on this drive before.

If you cannot use an old CDRW now, it mey well be a hardware failure of the 
drive. Then you need a new drive.

I have had a drive in which at first CDRWs fail, and then only certain colour 
CDRs would work. (It didn't like green. I was told this was nonsense.)

Throughout all this, HP assured me that the problem was Adaptex/Roxio 
software. I went   through many, many software upgrades, to no avail. When 
the drive finally failed utterly, it was  just out of warranty. HP then told 
me that the laser had failed gradually, "becoming weaker". 

Duncan


On Tuesday 20 July 2004 12:34 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.  Yeah, I never thought of that :).  However, I
> > did try a cd that it worked with before...however I think that that cd
> > might not be in great shape.  That is why I bought the new cds.  It says
> > on the package that they are 4x-12x.  I am pretty sure that my burner
> > can do 2x and 4x and 6x.  If this is true that should be ok right?  This
> > is my cd burner at home so I will have to check when I get home for
> > sure.  Maybe I should force it to do 6x?
>
> Well what speed does the drive do CD-R and what speed does it do CD-RW.
> The drive always has different speeds for the two types.
>
> In my experience, the CD-RW speed is either, 1-4x or 4-10x or something
> higher.
>
> If the media says 4-12x, then it requries a drive that is CD-RW
> highspeed compatible, not one that does 1-4x CD-RW.
>
> What model is the CD writer?
>
> I suspect it is probably getting harder to find media for the old CD-RW
> drives that only do up to 4x.  Of course with the price of a modern CD
> writer, who cares?
>
> Lennart Sorensen
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