Dave Rado

I've wasted four successive CD-Rs, same results every time. The CDs are Maxell ones, which are one of the most respected brands, plus in the past I've used them without problems. Also, a minute ago, the internal CD drive was reporting "Drive not ready (medium not present)" for any CD, I had in it. I then rebooted the PC and the drive started reading CDs again. I also have an external USB CD.DVD drive, and that is now reporting "Drive not ready "spindle servo error" regardless of what type of CD is in it. Seems a bit of a coincidence that both the internal and external drives should fail at the same time, and I'm wondering whether it could be something more deep seated?

QSI CDRW/DVD SBW242C US85 (ATA) Current Profile: CD-R Disc Information: Status: Empty State of Last Session: Empty Erasable: No Free Sectors: 359,846 Free Space: 736,964,608 bytes Free Time: 79:59:71 (MM:SS:FF) Next Writable Address: 0 Supported Read Speeds: 8x ATIP Information: Disc ID: 97m15s17f Manufacturer: Ritek Co. Start Time of LeadIn: 97m15s17f Last Possible Start Time of LeadOut: 79m59s73f

I just tried using ImgBurn to make a copy of an audio CD to an audio CD-R. Everything went fine until it got to the verification, when it aborted with the following error message: "Verify Failed! - Reason: Layouts do not match." What does that mean? Log attached. DaveImgBurn.log