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Originally Posted by DumbLuck
All of a sudden, I am having issues with my DVD burning drive. It's a QSI DVD+-RW SDW-082. Over the past two years I have burned a couple hundred DVDs without a problem.
Starting last week, Nero claims the burned data DVD completed successfully, but upon loading the disk back into the drive for reading, Windows claims the disk is blank and loads the option menu for a "blank CD". Nero also registers it as blank. Further attempts to view the disc on other computers produces the same results.
If I flip the disc over and compare it to a blank DVD-R, there is clearly information written on the disc. For a few laughs, I attempted to write other data to the already non-working burned disc that Windows/Nero registered as blank. Another data ring was produced over the "old" data. That shouldn't have happened. 
At no time did I change media. I have been using Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs the entire time. I could see one or two bad discs in a batch, but 5 of them in a row seems unlikely...maybe? DMA mode is of course, on.
Anyone have some thoughts, or had the same issue at some point? |
I've had this happen to me.
Is your drive internal or external? Mine is external.
Sometimes it says "semaphore has timed out".
I unplugged it and plugged it in again and worked fine.
I verify all discs I burn now.
It's happened with various media brands so I would say it's hardware issue.
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