HP DVD Writer 740b will not burn DVD +R disks
I have an HP Media Center PC a1250n with an HP DVD RW Writer 740b with Lightscribe technology, and cannot get the DVD Writer to burn a DVD +R data disk using the installed Sonic DigitalMedia Plus v7 (also called RecordNow) software.
Actually, I hve gotten 2 good copies out after trying 16. Sometimes it pops it out about 1/3 of the way through the copying process and often it goes all the way through (at least is says it has copied 4.1 GB of 4.1 GB) and then goes on for another 5 minutes or so trying to finish. The drive motor slowly increases speed and then decreases over and over.
The machine is about 14 months old and I have done a firmware update on the drive and the motherboard BIOS trying to fix this problem.
The drive will read a CD, play a music CD, and play a comercial DVD. It will NOT read a DVD RW disk that I wrote with the drive several months ago, even though the regular DVD Rom disk will read it.
Could somebody help.
Thanks,
Bob
Actually, I hve gotten 2 good copies out after trying 16. Sometimes it pops it out about 1/3 of the way through the copying process and often it goes all the way through (at least is says it has copied 4.1 GB of 4.1 GB) and then goes on for another 5 minutes or so trying to finish. The drive motor slowly increases speed and then decreases over and over.
The machine is about 14 months old and I have done a firmware update on the drive and the motherboard BIOS trying to fix this problem.
The drive will read a CD, play a music CD, and play a comercial DVD. It will NOT read a DVD RW disk that I wrote with the drive several months ago, even though the regular DVD Rom disk will read it.
Could somebody help.
Thanks,
Bob
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I have tried 3 brands of DVDs so far (Memorex, Verbatim, and TDK).
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... as an example of how inexpensive it is to replace this, here's a DVD +/-R plus DVD-RAM plus Lightscribe drive for $32.99: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151136
Maybe your DVD burner is running in PIO mode... Use the following step-by-step instructions to enable DMA mode for the drive if available:
http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm
http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm
You could also try deleting the Primary and Secondary IDE controllers in Device Manager (start->run->devmgmt.msc) and reboot. Windows XP will detect the missing devices and re-install them automatically.
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I did try deleting all occurences of MasterIdDataChecksum and SlaveIdDataChecksum at the location in the registry that you suggested. But in the end the drive had to be replaced. It is working fine now. They are cheap these days.
Thanks.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Sounds like the drive may just be toast, but one last thing to try, use a different brand of dvd, some drives are picky.
Happy Holidays!
Jappo