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CiNnEr214

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Ok last night I was burning a cd and I started to get error for each song that it was initializing. I waited a while since they all came up with errors. After about 10 minutes I moused over the whole window and the hourglass was still there. (by the way I was using the windows media player to burn the cd). I used ctrl+ alt+ del and it told me that windows media player was not responding. So i just ended the process. After that point my pc no longer recognized my cd rom in My computer. I went to Device Manager and there was no unkown hardware installed, also there was no cd rom device that looked to be installed. The Samsung Writemaster ts-h552 has only burned about 5 cds at the most . :mad: Please let me know if anyone has run into this issue or if anyone knows a fix.
 
Make sure the IDE/SATA and power cables are firmly attached?



Do you have something other than media player to burn with?


Can you try it in a different computer?
 
Agreed. Try actual burning software, and/or another computer. You also could check for a firmware update to the burner.
 
Well actually yea I did try to reboot it. Ummm the problem that I am seeing is that I think it has to do wit Windows Media Player. I wound up running into a similar problem here at work with a co workers cd burner. Once I install the original cd rom back in the pc recognizes it. But wen I put the burner back in it still didnt see it.
For my problem at hand I will try that wen I get home though. I think I can get a copy of like Roxio or something here from work to try it out at home. But you think if I install Roxio that my cd rom would wind up appearing again?
 
CiNnEr214 said:
Well actually yea I did try to reboot it. Ummm the problem that I am seeing is that I think it has to do wit Windows Media Player. I wound up running into a similar problem here at work with a co workers cd burner. Once I install the original cd rom back in the pc recognizes it. But wen I put the burner back in it still didnt see it.
For my problem at hand I will try that wen I get home though. I think I can get a copy of like Roxio or something here from work to try it out at home. But you think if I install Roxio that my cd rom would wind up appearing again?
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If you have XP, you should be able to burn a test disk, XP has native support for burning disks...dosn't it?
 
Komataguri said:
If you have XP, you should be able to burn a test disk, XP has native support for burning disks...dosn't it?
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Yes, you can drag and drop files from explorer to the CD, when you eject you will get a pop-up asking you to burn the data.

You can burn music CDs with media player.
 
CiNnEr214 said:
Well there is no cd icon so how can i just drop the files in there.
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If that's the case, it's likely the CD drive is either bad, or it's not configured properly at the hardware level. Windows rarely "stops seeing" a CD drive.

Does the BIOS see the drive on POST/ in the BIOS menu?

Check cables, check jumpers, check power connection to the drive.
 
Phoenix86 said:
If that's the case, it's likely the CD drive is either bad, or it's not configured properly at the hardware level. Windows rarely "stops seeing" a CD drive.

Does the BIOS see the drive on POST/ in the BIOS menu?

Check cables, check jumpers, check power connection to the drive.
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Only time a windows install ever stopped seeing a drive, in my case, was when the drive was dead and gone.


Which means, time for upgrades.
 
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