Diagnosis of CD-RW Sony CRX320E?

[BobMCT]

Perhaps someone can provide some insight. For some unknown reason I cannot seem to keep my CDR drives working and I use them very infrequently.

In my system running Win/XP Pro SP2 and currently using NTI DVD-GOLD software for writing CDs I cannot create CDRs. All seems normal until I must insert a blank CD. When I do the system recognizes the insersion then the drive starts to spin-up, pauses, makes a noise that sounds like someone dropped a hard rubber ball that bounces VERY rapidly for a second or two, then quite for a few seconds. This repeats ad-infinitum until I cancel the task and manually remove the CD. Happens with ALL new CDR's. Same drive seems to read from CD just fine.

Has anyone experienced this before? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Bob

 

[ski]

If those CD-R's work ok in another drive, then yours is probably bad.

 

[oultonprk]

Have you tried using nero software instead also try
cleaning the drive with a cd drive cleaning disk
and check that the ide cable is fully inserted
If nothing helps then the disk drive maybe faulty

 

[626F62]

yeah i would deffinatly try using a different wrighting software, but doutfull it will be that if it is making the noises you are hearing... i have heard of disks that get read at different speeds and this could cause the spin up to make thos horrible noises, other than that the noise sounds like the disk might be lose. would also consider try some cheap ass disks...