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DVDrw writes CDs but not DVDs anymore!?

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Jul 29, 2004
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I have a memorex DVDrw working for a year now. Today it gets an immediate error READING the file to burn. It burns a CD ok. It reads a DVD ok. I tried Fireburner and Roxio, both get an error. The DVD is a 2ndry master with a CDrw slave. I pulled the CDrw, no help. I moved the DVDrw to the Primary slave, no help. I put the DVDrw into another system, it works fine. Device mngr shows no problem. I can only think to reload Win2k. I can think of no software lately that may have interfered. Anybody seen this b4?
 
Leave fireburner, but uninstall Roxio. To do so, go here and follow the directions:

The steps pretty much apply to Roxio Easy CD version 5 as well if that's what you have. It appears that you have a registry setting that is corrupt, which explains why the drive works on another PC.

After removing Roxio completely and rebooting, see if fireburner still works.


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Removed roxio 6, deleted folders, renamed files, cleaned registry, rebooted. Fireburner failed the same:

Thread1: Setting Write Parameters
Thread1: Write parameters set
Thread1: Reading Disc Info
Thread1: Reading Next Track Info
Thread1: Error reading next track info
Thread1: Error starting burn on retry
Recording aborted due to error

 
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