Need Help with DVD writer
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From: William R. Walsh on 27 Jun 2010 00:11 Hi! > Isn't there a read and write test that can be done? Yes. Your using the drive with CD burning software was as good of a test as any. If you want a read test...that's what a CD with about 700MB of stuff on it was for. It doesn't have to be a burned CD, nor do you have to burn a CD. Use one you already have that comes as close as you can. > Also don't have a 700mb cdr to use. You don't need one. What you need is a CD that already has roughly 700MB of data on it right now. Got a Windows installation CD kicking around? That could work. Whatever the case, the idea would be to copy the contents of the CD to your computer and see if it works. Use the suspect drive to do this. This would serve two purposes: it would confirm whether or not the drive can read a disc properly to start with and it might also limber up the mechanism if it's simply stuck or sluggish from disuse. If you can't get a disc with that much data on it to read properly, then it is almost certain that the drive will not write one either. William
From: Larry on 27 Jun 2010 00:48
"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1(a)idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote in news:f4ednUtHg_P6UrvRnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d(a)mchsi.com: > Hi! > >> Isn't there a read and write test that can be done? > > Yes. Your using the drive with CD burning software was as good of a > test as any. If you want a read test...that's what a CD with about > 700MB of stuff on it was for. It doesn't have to be a burned CD, nor > do you have to burn a CD. Use one you already have that comes as close > as you can. > >> Also don't have a 700mb cdr to use. > > You don't need one. What you need is a CD that already has roughly > 700MB of data on it right now. Got a Windows installation CD kicking > around? That could work. > > Whatever the case, the idea would be to copy the contents of the CD to > your computer and see if it works. Use the suspect drive to do this. > This would serve two purposes: it would confirm whether or not the > drive can read a disc properly to start with and it might also limber > up the mechanism if it's simply stuck or sluggish from disuse. If you > can't get a disc with that much data on it to read properly, then it > is almost certain that the drive will not write one either. > > William > > > It reads and it does get used for music and session backups, run at least once a day. Larry |