Need help on a bad way..... HP1040r DVD writer has lost its mind

[Ebrush]

Had to do a clean install of XP because son likes to play game sights, any way after clean install tried to make a back up copy of my Lost Room DVD set and disc was not found by drive so i tried to open and copy TS to HD go the error "windows cannot read from this disk. the disk might be corrupted or damaged" so i tried another disc, same thing i my thinking was WINDVD didn't install right so i re-installed WINDVD and and put in the original NET DVD played just fine, so i put in a Original music CD it also played fine, on a whim i put in a mixed CD i had burned before the clean install, and it also played fine. i put in the Lost Room DVD in again (DVD+) AnyDvd saw the disc but nothing else happened. Opened up MY Computer and the DVD RAM is now listed as CD Drive and i get the same error. "windows cannot read from this disk. the disk might be corrupted or damaged" tired opening it with DVD Decrypter in file mode hoping to be able to copy it and i get "UDF FILE SYSTEM PARSING FAILED! device:[1:0:0] HP DVD Writer 1040r MH21 (D: ) (ATA) Reason: Function 'UDFFindPartition' returned 0".

I'm at a total lost, original CD's, DVD's and even burnt CD's work, only back up DVD are not seen or read by the drive that is after AnyDvd finishes.

Please HHHHHHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP!

[Bjs]

Welcome Ebrush

Burnt media dose not last as long as commercially produced media.

By the sounds of it the drive is having issues with burnt dvds and either needs firmware updated or the drive replaced ... thou I would take those burnt dvds to another system to confirm if its media failure first.

[lowellriggsiam]

Try uninstalling the drive and rebooting. Test the media in another system, if it works in other systems, try installing the drivers from the manufactures website, if else try hooking it up using an USB enclosure and see if the same thing happens.

[budz]

Check your IDE cable on the dvd burner, they don't last forever. Sounds like the HP dvd burner is dying a slow death. Also check to make sure DMA is enabled on the dvd burner.

[Ebrush]

Thanks all...tried all suggestions, the backup dvd's play in my laptop and stand alone players....tried uninstall drive and rebooting same problem on restart.... checked cables because I've only had the drive for a couple months...same issue.....any other ideals.... thinking about tossing it of the patio... might help

[minidv2dvd]

toss it, dvdr's are cheap and not always reliable. i've always been partial to pioneer but they don't make their own drives anymore so i don't know what to suggest, maybe a lite-on or asus drive.