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by techiehelp 1 view

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What would make a CD-Writer stop working? It still goes through the process of writing on a blank CD, but the recorded disk contains no data.....this happens to both audio and data files. The blank CDs are not the problem as I have gone through different packs/brands to no avail! I also know that there are differnet CDs for copying audio and data files. I welcome any suggestions and/or comments. Thanks.

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by tarts

How old is your CD-RW? How often you use it? If you have about 2 years old drive and you are using it at least once in a day, then you can be pretty syre, that the writing laser is dead.

by techiehelp

Fortunately in this case, the laser writer is not dead. All I had to do was purchase a cleaning kit and cleaned both drives, the source and blank CDs. Finally, I found out that some of the blank CDs were bad even after I tried to reformat them.

Thanks anyway.

by rgravelle

It sounds to me that your laser Diode may be
frapped.
You may also have software problems.
You can download Nero burning software from
www.ahead.de and install it on your machine.
It is very easy to use and will probably
tell you if you have cd-rw problems.
Make sure you remove your old cd software
first.

good luck

by techiehelp

Fortunately in this case, the laser writer is not dead. All I had to do was purchase a cleaning kit and cleaned both drives, the source and blank CDs. Finally, I found out that some of the blank CDs were bad even after I tried to reformat them.

Thanks anyway.

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