Problem with my DVD RW drive.

I am currently having a problem with my DVD drive. It is a Sony DVD RW DW U14A and it will read discs, like movies and games. However when I come to right something to DVD ir won't work.

Every disc I put in it says I have 0kb on the total disc and 0kb available. Programs like clone DVD and such wont allow me to use discs either anymore. The drive worked fine until about 2 days ago were it simply ceased to operate,

Is there anything you can do to help me with the problem?

 

Are you running CloneCD or any other copying program which allows you to 'hide CDR media'?

If so unselect that option or exit the app in the systray.

Fish

 

This is what my drive is showing. Btw to the other poster this isnt a DVD writing software error as all discs I input say 0kb total space 0kb available.

 

If clonecd or equivalent was hiding the cdr/dvd media from apps, all cd writing software would say bugger off I ain't writing. This fits with what you have described. It wouldn't be limited to just clonecd or whatever.

What applications do you have installed, Nero, clonecd, alcohol???

Fish

 

it fails on DVD santa, DVD shrink and DVD clone also when I drag files into a disc uning windows it also says it full. Here is some more information you may find helpful.



This also just recently occured its its not working on other discs types like bulkpaq and satawrite that ive used countless times before its just not working. This discs I put in work on other computers so I know that they are not the problem.

 

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID RITEKG05
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 411107328
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.71GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 1.0x 1385KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 08
2x Speed OPC power 12
2x Write Strategy field 1 11 98 9A 80
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 06
4x Speed OPC power 18
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 10 07 07
4x Write Strategy field 2 97 06 0C 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 80 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 04
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 1D
4x Write Strategy field 4 17 B8 88 75
4x Write Strategy field 5 89 AC 98 81 00 10
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6A 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 86 0E 11 .j...@....R.....
00000010 98 9A 80 00 03 52 49 54 45 4B 47 00 04 30 35 00 .....RITEKG..05.
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 88 80 00 00 00 02 00 06 08 12 11 ................


Thats the log I got from DVD info Pro

 

@creaky - What do you want me to do at that second link i didnt quit understand what you said?

 

Ive never used a 8x before however, none of my bulkpaq or datawrite discs work either and those are 4x so...

also these 8x work fine in my other DVD writer which is also only a 4x.

 

This is pretty stupid I cant understand why it would work all this time then just cease to operate -_-

 

You would think if it was a crap media problem then it would write to the media craply, rather than not write to the media. It would, and all its brothers would, have to be really crap to produce the problem outlined.

So.....

 

Yes, there is some crap media out there. But since the media he's using used to work but now doesn't suggests something else. GO5 isn't bad stuff, there is better but there's also worse. And sometimes you do get some on a spindle which is screwed, the ones before work and the ones after work but the one in your hand has uneven dyes etc but some do work.

I would still go with either, hardware has gone on the fritz or 'hide cdr media' in clonecd or alcohol. The second is most likely, since it fits the facts as laid out by him.

Until hes says he doesn't have clonecd, alcohol or gamejack etc on his machine and has checked for the above that would be my favourite.

Fish

 

How exactly do I check if said programs have hidden the media?