DVD Combo Drive: Gone for Good?

Lethal`

Lethal`

Lethal`

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Hi there

I don't use my DVD drive often, but today I inserted a DVD-RW to burn an ISO to, it appeared to have nothing on it when exploring via Computer (Vista), but the usage was at 0 bytes free of 4.38GB (value close to that if not).

So I continued and loaded up imgburn and tried to burn the ISO, it said the disc needs erasing so I clicked OK/Yes and it erased it and then began writing to the disc, then it came up with some sort of read errors when it tried to verify the data burnt. The disc was also not recognized on My Computer. So I got another set of DVDs out and put them in the drive they all got the same capacity value (0 bytes free), I checked them in another computer and they were all fine and had data on them. I then checked a CD in my drive and that was not recognized either.

imgburn error said:
W 17:49:03 Failed to Read Sector 16 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error
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It's an old drive (IDE) from about two years ago, has it given up for good or is there something I can try to get it working?

Thanks! :)
 
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You could try using a different IDE cable on the offchance that it is a dodgy connection but I think realistically you're probably about as well to simply buy a new DVD drive, the prices are so low now it almost isn't worth the cost/time ratio to investigate too hard.
 
Yeah I know what you mean, and I need to reformat within the next few days... going to be a little hard without a DVD drive...

Will see if I can find a spare IDE cable and then get one on order, I've been wanting a SATA one for a while simply because of the cable size :D
 
The price of dvdrw drives are currently below £20 , a sata pioneer drive can be had for less than £19 , is it worth the hassle of messing about trying to get it working :confused:

it it were me i would bin it and buy a new one....;)
 
mmorpheus1 said:
The price of dvdrw drives are currently below £20 , a sata pioneer drive can be had for less than £19 , is it worth the hassle of messing about trying to get it working :confused:

it it were me i would bin it and buy a new one....;)
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Spot on advice.
I have never had to bin a hard drive , but i have had to replace many optical drives.
The last one was a LITEON , no problem burning disks , but it didnt like reading them.
 
Any suggestion on which SATA drive to get? Needs to be between £15-20 and I don't need Lightscribe, also it must be black to go with my case.
 
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