Can't burn discs!

I don't understand... The computer is reading the disc as blank. I can go through the entire burn procedure, in a variety of programs, at which point the disc pops out and I get the "success" message. But when I put the disc back into the drive it still appears blank. Tried with Media Player, ImgBurn and Nero, all with the same results. Also tried 3 different brands of disc, one crap one and two good quality ones... Any ideas? The roads round here are terrible, theres literally more pothole than road. Could the constant impact have had an effect on it? And why does it not register a problem rather than going through the whole process under the illusion of success...

HELP ME!

(again)

 

What are you trying to burn? A movie or music? Does the drive play dvd movie when you put it in?

 

What are you trying to burn? and can you try the burned disk on another PC?

 

didn't see your reply there dttran83.I went afk xD

 

I'm trying to burn the A09 BIOS. The burned disc comes up as a blank on my (lousy piece of crap) computer at work too. It's reading discs just fine, movies, games, audio. But for some reason the burner just isn't getting the job done. It literally goes through every step just fine, right through to ejecting the disc once it's "complete" but it simply isn't writing information in the slightest.

 

Try closing the burning program and make sure you're finalizing the disc.
I personally use MagicIso and ConvertXtoDVD.
I realized that when using ConverXtoDVD I would finish burning but when I tried to play the video it would read as blank. All I did was close it and the video played just fine.

 

No offense, but is the file you're trying to burn the M15xA09.iso and not a .zip or .exe which contains the A09.iso or constituent files?

 

None taken. It's definately the .iso file. Really don't know what to do about this... I'll burn it on another machine, but the fact that my burner is playing up is really bugging me. Had a feeling my poor laptop wouldn't cope well with this place and since I arrived it's been one problem after another. They should really make a 4x4 version, for extreme environments...

 

Hell, Inap will fabricate one (4x4 version) for you with minimal encouragement.

 

LOL! Or have it beamed down from the mothership.

I'm thinking I might have to get myself a new optical drive. Perhaps a BluRay one this time. The list of repairs / upgrades is steadily growing, very sobering indeed. If anything else goes wrong it's probably going to cost me less to come back home to the UK and sort it out, as opposed to pay $1000's postage for items that will most likely get stolen or destroyed en route. Life can be so cruel...

 

It ain't easy running high tech in the back country. LOL. Sure sounds like a hardware problem, but I don't know enough about DVD-CD drives to be sure or whether it can be fixed short of replacement. Sorry. Will it burn anything and create a readable disc-- data, music, etc.?

 

Nothing at all. Whats really got me puzzled is that it's not showing any error messages or any sign of fault. The whole thing runs smoothly until I try reading the apparently burned files. I think the drive is suffering from amnesia or something...

 

If you trying to burn the iso for A09. Try using imgburn. That what I alway use whenever I burn iso file.

 

I'm fairly confident its actually a hardware fault and not a software issue. All burn programs are giving the same results.

 

Try put the disc in and read from startup as you would when upgrading it. See if it reads anything.

 

I have the same issue -again-.

I had the drive replaced a couple months ago because it wouldn't read any disks. It would read everything as a brand new blank disk. It won't boot off any bootable disks either.

I'm going to have to get in touch with Dell yet again to have this drive replaced yay. Bleh.