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Thread ID: 33010	2003-05-04 07:39:00	DVDRom and CD Burner problems (not ripping)	Mike (15)	Press F1

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141306	2003-05-04 07:39:00	I am having problems with both my DVD Rom and CD Burner. I've tried to copy a few CDs (CDs I've created myself and also non CDRs), and the Burner software (Nero) can't seem to read the CDs from the DVD drive anymore to copy them to CD. So instead I have to copy them from the Burner to the burner (swapping CD half way through). For a while the DVD has had trouble reading CDRs (takes a LONG time to read the contents in Explorer), but hasn't seemed to have a problem with reading mass-produced CDs until recently. So I'm guessing there's possibly something wrong with the DVD drive... Second problem, possibly related, is that my burner now no longer burns at faster than 16x... it's a 32x burner, and had been running at 32x since I bought it until about 2 months ago - I just thought it might be the quality of the CDs I was using, but now I've tested on several brands and they all only burn at 16x (one brand has only burned at 8x!)... BTC 12x40x DVD Rom about 1 1/2 or 2 years old Sony 32x24x40x CDRW (I think :)) Any suggestions? Thanks :) Mike.	Mike (15)
141307	2003-05-04 07:49:00	Also consider that the burner will only go at the speed of the CDR media. So if you use 16x CDR disks, then it will only write them at 16x	Pheonix (280)
141308	2003-05-04 07:52:00	> Also consider that the burner will only go at the > speed of the CDR media. So if you use 16x CDR disks, > then it will only write them at 16x Using 40x CDs Mike.	Mike (15)
141309	2003-05-04 12:07:00	Dirty / misaligned optics in the DVD drive perhaps?	Iain Walmsley (3372)
141310	2003-05-05 07:57:00	> Dirty / misaligned optics in the DVD drive perhaps? Yeah perhaps - I can't find my lens cleaner anywhere so haven't been able to check that yet... I think perhaps both drives might be dirty. Mike.	Mike (15)
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