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    CD burning question

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by littlegamer360, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. littlegamer360

    littlegamer360 Notebook Guru

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    So I've had my 6860 for a little over a month now. For the first time today I decided I wanted to burn a CD. Well I put a blank CD in and nothing happens. Usually whenever I've put a blank CD in any other Vista computer it brings up a little popup menu asking you what you want to do with the CD.

    Well I though, maybe there just isn't going to be a pop-up or it's a bad CD. Well, I've ruled out it being a bad cd so I tried just to burn something with WMP, well I click burn and it says to insert a CD into the drive. My drive reads cd's fine and all but doesn't seem to want to read my blank cd-r's for some reason.

    Any ideas?
     
    littlegamer360, Jul 19, 2008
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Download and run the Nero Infotool. It will tell you the capabilities of the optical drive and, if there is blank disk in the drive, what speed it can burn it at.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 19, 2008
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  3. littlegamer360

    littlegamer360 Notebook Guru

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    I ran info tool with a disc in even and it said that I had no disc inserted....

    It does DVD's fine and info tool says it can read and write CD's also, but it doesn't seem to do it lol. I'm a little confused.
     
    littlegamer360, Jul 19, 2008
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  4. Lakjin

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    check drivers maybe?
     
    Lakjin, Jul 19, 2008
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  5. John Ratsey

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    The drivers for the optical drive are built into Windows.

    You need to check what happens with a couple of other brands of burnable media. It is possible that the burner doesn't like the media you first used. if the burner refuses to detect three different types of burnable media then I think it needs to be replaced.

    Another useful software which should give the media type is DVD Identifier.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 20, 2008
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    Lum-X Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a same lapy and today i burned 3 games on DVD-r DL without any problems
     
    Lum-X, Jul 20, 2008
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  7. littlegamer360

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    Like I stated before, it burns DVD's fine. The CD's I have are a little older and I don't have any different ones. I'll try finding some other brand and see what happens with that. Thanks guys.
     
    littlegamer360, Jul 22, 2008
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