my writer writes "blank" cds please help

[roopam77]

i have yamaha 8 8 24 cd-writer it was all right before 3-4 days but now it can not write anything it writes succesfully
and for full time allocated but after writing the cd shows nothing but blank and no used space!!!
it happens with every cd is my writer is in fault or cds are bad?
please help me b'se then i can take descision of replacing my writer which is just 3 months old!!

[roopam77]

please try to even tell writer is at fault or not
please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrbass]

you probably have cdrwin. Use blindwrite.com or fireburner.com instead. Much better for burning bin/cue.

[roopam77]

thanks for reply
i use win on cd 3.8
i am trying to burn mp3 songs from my harddisk to cd-r of 80 minutes of frontech
i too tried burning vcd
i too tried amkette cd-r
in both i got blank cds at last
i tried yamaha cd re-writable but in that after writing
cd becomes totally in accesible
my writer is of yamaha

[roopam77]

please dear sirs or madams
einsteins of vcd burning!!!
please reply me !!!
wonder that no one is interested in replying??

[vitualis]

Does your burner write anything at all? That is, are your blanks, still complete unwritten afterwards?

It doesn't sound like you have problems with your discs -- it sounds like a hardware problem.

Firstly, are you sure all the cables (e.g., IDE or SCSI) cables inside your PC are secure?

Regards.

[MPereira]

Does your burning software have the options "test", "test&write" or "write"? If so, check witch is active.
Seems to me that you are trying to burn with the "test" option enabled. If so, blank CDs is all you´ll gonna get...

[tendtend]

Try to erase a CDRW disc to see if you can. If you can erase the disk, the burner is OK and it's the software problem.

[hitechjunkie]

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On 2001-08-29 09:02:46, vitualis wrote:
Does your burner write anything at all? That is, are your blanks, still complete unwritten afterwards?

It doesn't sound like you have problems with your discs -- it sounds like a hardware problem.

Firstly, are you sure all the cables (e.g., IDE or SCSI) cables inside your PC are secure?

Regards.

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don't discount the discs entirely, though. another forum member had similar problems, which, based on countless questions and answers, i swore was hardware related.

several weeks later he reported it was an entire batch/spindle of discs that were bad. rarely happens, but it does happen...

[roopam77]

yeh
cds remain conpletely blank after writing
i can even re write them
i can erase cd-rw
i have turned "write immigiately"
i have used win on cd 3.8 and nero 5.0 with same result

[Elchknie]

tried burning a standard 74-min cd? my hp7500 had the same "blank-disc"-problems before i updatet it to a sony via firmware. when i tried to burn >78mins, the disc kept blank. your problem sounds similar to this. so, go on and try to not overburn a 74min cd (e.g with only 300 megabytes or so)

-Elchknie

[Greg12]

weird. Well at least their not coasters