Inspiron E1705 cds not burning or reading

Question

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron E1705, and I have recently attempted to burn some songs onto cds, the cds are CD-Rs and have burned previously without any problems whatsoever. I'm confused as to why songs wont burn onto the blank cd, the media player keeps on ejecting the cd (audio or data) and telling me to insert a writable. Actual cds wont read into my cd player, either. I'm not sure what to do about this, but I doubt it is the laser eye because my dvds work just fine but cds don't.   Again, it was working before, but it suddenly stopped :(   please help!   thanks

Skybird · Answer

Run the Dell diagnostics on the drive to test it. The diagnostics should
be on your hard drive and accessed by pressing F12 at the startup. Have
a data CD available dor the test.

Also, look in the Device Manager .........

Start | Control Panel | System in classic view | Hardware tab | Device Manager

Click on the (+) next to DVD/CD-ROM drives. This will reveal the Brand and Model of
drive. Please post that.

reking37 · Answer

I also have the 1705 and all of a sudden it won't see RW/DVDS Optiarc AD-5540A 8X DVD±R/RW Vista 32 Home Premium

Skybird · Answer

reking37,

Does the drive see CDs? What do you mean when you say the drive does not see RW/DVDs?
Does it play a movie DVD? Or, does it not recognize any DVD disc? Or, does it just not
see blank DVDs? A little more information please.

reking37 · Answer

They are blanks JVC RE-writables

reking37 · Answer

It reads writable dvd's just fine. It's the RW Dvd's that it won't see.   TIA

reking37 · Answer

JVC is no good?   I bought this machine with xp 12/06 and got the vista home premium when it was available (free upgrade) I am just now trying to use these dvd's on vista and they worked on xp. Do you think that vista is the culprit maybe?

Skybird · Answer

The brand has a big effect.  If they are off-brands or Memorex they will bea problem.  Are they blanks or do they have data on them?

Skybird · Answer

Try another brand.

reking37 · Answer

right.   that's exactly how i'm thinking @ the moment

Skybird · Answer

They worked previously in the same drive?  Then they should work again.The operating system should not affect how the drive sees the discs.

Tatersalads · Answer

The dvd/cd-rom drive is a Sony DVD+-RW DW-Q58A ATA Device   I will run a diagnostics test right now

Tatersalads · Answer

ok, I just ran the diagnostics test, when it was scanning over the cd/dvd rom an error message popped up     Error:  code 0148 MSG: Error code 2000-0148 MSG: Unit 2: IDE Error: Status 1A error registor: 0020h Sense information: (02-0401) Sense data: 70h 00h 02h 00h 00h 00h 00h 0Ah 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 04h 01h 00h 00h 00h 00h     not sure what that means....

Skybird · Answer

It appears that your drive has failed or will shortly.  It is time toconsider replacing it.

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