cd rom drive wont burn cds

Sephiroth_dude

hey
tryed copying files to a cd this morning and it gave me an error message saying "it could'nt copy the files to the cd" and then i tryed burning music and it said "please insert cd"and there was a cd inserted in it the cd drive seems fine,its runs all my games fine,i have a dell xps m1710 was just hoping someone could help me out?

any help would be great
cheers

ps
was thinking about buying a external drive to use for copying and burning music and what not and use the internal drive then for games only,what do ye think?

thanks again

Kimbot

What program are you using to burn the files??

Sephiroth_dude

windows media player for the music when im burning cds and when copying files to a cd i just left click the file and send them direct to cd rom and then in the folder theres a "copy these files to cd "icon and thats how i do it,i have roxio i think but i dont use it

Kimbot

Uninstall Roxio, I had alot of problems when I used it. Then get NERO and try burning a CD with nero and see if that works.

Ph3n0m

Be warned - it could also be the cd itself.

I bought (what I thought) was loads of dvd r - but each time I went to burn, there was the usual "error, blah blah". Turns out the DVDs that I bought are sometimes notorious - they either work or they dont work

And yes I was using Nero aswell

Sephiroth_dude

thing is though that i used a couple of the cds and they worked grand and then all of a sudden it just stopped working :confused.What do ye think of my buying an external cd drive idea?good idea?are they reliant?

Sephiroth_dude

oh and im using cd-r discs!could they be the problem?