[Mistfo]

Running XP Pro and cant copy files to the burner. First i drop a file onto the burner drive icon >balloon pops up in system tray saying "you have files waiting to be written to the CD" >i click on balloon >click on file >click on "write these file to CD" >cd writer wizard box says "there's no disc in the drive, please insert a recordable disc in the G:\ > i've run defrag, error checking, Norton for viruses & reloaded XP with no remedy. No errors shown in Device Manager.
What to do... Help!!!!

 

[dai]

i have spent the last four months on this one,it has to be software related but still have not found the problems cause.
if you do a sight search you will find plenty of previous posts on this one

 

[Triple6]

The best solution is to install third party burner like Nero with InCD or Easy CD Creator with DirectCD and to disable XP's built-in burner support. The built-in support is troublesome.

 

[Mistfo]

I've tried Nero InCD with XP burner support disabled with no success. Also browsed #324129 Knowledge Base Article. HOW TO: Troubleshoot Issues That Occur When You Write Data to a CD-R or CD-RW Optical Disc in Windows XP. XP burner support actually did work at one time. Thanks for the tips.

 

[Miz]

InCD is packet-writing software...notoriously unreliable. Try just burning a regluar data CD with Nero.

If it still won't work, it's possible the burner has gone bad. What you're experiencing is exactly what happened to a customer of mine. His CD writer was only about a year old but nothing we tried got it to write to any kind of blank CD, although it did, and does, read CDs just fine. We replaced it and it worked, including using XP's built-in burning software.

 

[Mistfo]

Tried burning data CD in Nero with no success. Looks like i need to try a new burner. Thanks for the tip Miz.
Mike