DVD-RW CD-RW Help Please

[fotodan]

I am in need of help. Here's my problem. I am needing to write some photo files to cd, as I have done in the past (last year) from files on my external HD. If cd inserted into drive, in my computor for that drive, it does show the cd-r with 702m free space. When I go to write the files to cd, in the CD Writing Wizzard, it says "error in writing process, disc may no longer be usable". These are new disc's and have tried different brand names, and they all do the same thing. When I try to make video on to DVD in different programs like Pinnacle 12 studio plus or windvd creator it can't read that their is a dvd-rw in the drive (tells me to insert dvd-rw into drive).

This is on my laptop HP Pavilion zv5000 Intel pentium 4. It seems it started to happen after the sp2 to sp3 update. Also windows movie maker is no longer working since that update. It will read music and cd's that have had photos burned on them, and it does play DVD movies. Just won't write anymore.

My drive is the "HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4080N and it is the 0C09 version. Anyone out there with any ideas??

Thanks,

[In2Photos]

Try a google search if you haven't done so, but you most likely need to contact HP to see if they have any answers for you.

[fotodan]

Thanks Mike, already searched Goggle, and was with HP this morning. Nothing we tried worked, from uninstalling and rebooting the drivers for this deck, to even dropping write speed down. Some say to install Sony frimware OS35, while others say not to...... I guess my last shot is to transfere all editing files and programs to external hard drive and do a system restore... I have even thought about loading XP Pro from a disc I bought years ago when I reformatted ME edition to XP Pro. Just not sure if that would be the thing to do either. I have been toying with the idea of building a desktop super computor (wanting a i7 system real bad for video editing) I guess this would be a good enough reason...:lol:

[In2Photos]

Thanks Mike, already searched Goggle, and was with HP this morning. Nothing we tried worked, from uninstalling and rebooting the drivers for this deck, to even dropping write speed down. Some say to install Sony frimware OS35, while others say not to...... I guess my last shot is to transfere all editing files and programs to external hard drive and do a system restore... I have even thought about loading XP Pro from a disc I bought years ago when I reformatted ME edition to XP Pro. Just not sure if that would be the thing to do either. I have been toying with the idea of building a desktop super computor (wanting a i7 system real bad for video editing) I guess this would be a good enough reason...:lol:
Interesting. I had heard about SP3 doing some bad things, in fact I never did "upgrade" my two computers.

I just built an i7 rig a couple of weeks ago. If you are really considering one I highly recommend it. Mine flies using LR, approximately 30 times faster than my old machine! Exporting images takes seconds instead of hours! It's great!

[ROCKFISHER]

Maybe it is specific to your machine,but i have a home built machine running win xp pro sp3 and all works ok......only issue i have had was that when i installed a bluetooth device it stopped my internet working!....was just a network configaration conflict though.
Your dvd r/w drive could be faulty.

[René Damkot]

Might be that the burner is dying?

[fotodan]

Update, which makes no sense to me at all. Just for grins I ran across HP Memories Disk Maker in programs, and tried it, and it will send photos to disc. Why will this program send info to disc while no other program will???? Anyone??

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Maybe it is specific to your machine,but i have a home built machine running win xp pro sp3 and all works ok
same here, running SP3 and all the latest updates and no issues whatsoever.

Most likely you just need to change the DVD writer as this one's life is over.