Cannot burn VCDs . . .anymore :(

[ovide_video]

I recently have been experiencing problems by not being able to burn any video to cd-r .

In the past I was able to burn vcd's no problem. Yet in past week, I have been getting increasingly poor quality burns a lot of skipping and now its to the point where discs can't be read at all.

-defragged the hard drive
-used proper burning software, Roxio
-burned at a lower speed
-tried different brands of cd-r
-switched to CD-RW instead of CD-R

Recently,
-used disc cleaner
-tried switching to a different burning program , Nero

using dell laptop, inspiron 5150:

drive model#: QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-242

[MOVIEGEEK]

I would say it's your writer,buy an external or see if the laptop is still under warranty.

[arredja]

maybe you go a virus from somewhere

[ovide_video]

see the funny thing is that I can burn a bunch of word or excel files to one disc and it burns perfectly. The only problem is video . . .

btw, I also did a virus check one with my anti-virus program, F-secure and one online, panda active-sccan and nothing showed up.

Another thing is I used to burn video using the "send to" feature in windows explorer and that no longer works, for video. Instead I have use to use a burning program, where as before I never needed to.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Roxio and Nero don't play nice together,uninstall Roxio.Make sure to uninstall Roxio's packet writing software too.

[ovide_video]

see the thing is that I can burn word files and excel files no problem using the either program . . . so is the software conflict you are referring to . .only effected by burning video files?

[ovide_video]

thanks guys
I was sucessful in that Dell finally conceeded that the drive was dead.
I replaced it finally, now working like it was supposed to.