swynx
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so my cd burner stopped working. its just an old cd reader/burner, it reads dvd's. it came in this walmart special idk how many years ago.
i was burning some cd's when it stopped displaying the blank cd's. for awhile if i restarted the computer, it would work again. now it wont show any thing. keeps telling me to insert a blank cd. it opens, the drivers are up to date. ive made sure its plugged in, restarted the comp several times. the cd stills spins, and i know this because i can feel the vibration.
windows says that its working properly, if i insert a ubuntu cd before boot up it just sits there trying to load it, with that black screen and the blinking underscore. ive insterted a disk thats got music on it and it comes up with the blank disk but does nothing, and im on windows 7, if i refresh the disk the green loading bar at the top will come up and slowly finish but yet again nothing really happens?
i know its only 16$ on new egg to replace it with a dvd burner, but id rather not replace it. any suggestions on things to try?
i was burning some cd's when it stopped displaying the blank cd's. for awhile if i restarted the computer, it would work again. now it wont show any thing. keeps telling me to insert a blank cd. it opens, the drivers are up to date. ive made sure its plugged in, restarted the comp several times. the cd stills spins, and i know this because i can feel the vibration.
windows says that its working properly, if i insert a ubuntu cd before boot up it just sits there trying to load it, with that black screen and the blinking underscore. ive insterted a disk thats got music on it and it comes up with the blank disk but does nothing, and im on windows 7, if i refresh the disk the green loading bar at the top will come up and slowly finish but yet again nothing really happens?
i know its only 16$ on new egg to replace it with a dvd burner, but id rather not replace it. any suggestions on things to try?