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cd rom drive wont burn cds

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  • 05-09-2007 9:47am
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    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,012 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    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":confused: and then i tryed burning music and it said "please insert cd"and there was a cd inserted in it :confused: 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


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    Kimbot
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    What program are you using to burn the files??


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    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,012 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


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    Kimbot
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    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.


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    Ph3n0m
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    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 :)


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    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,012 Mod ✭✭✭✭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?


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    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,012 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


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


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