Is My DVD-RW Dying ?

[unstopabl3]

Hi long time no see people how are ya'll.

 

I was hoping i get an opinion from my fellas before i went ahead and screamed at Dell.

 

If anyone remembers about the time when i posted about purchasing a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop ? Well this issue is related to that laptop.

 

Everything has been running smooth so far until recently i ran into issues. I have burned about 50-100 cds and dvds altogether without any issues but since a few days whenever i burn something i am getting errors at like 80% done status or even 90% done status and it's very frustrating. Although the status window of nero shows 8x speed but it takes like 10 mins to burn a 300 mb file which wasnt the case before. So i think somethings wrong with my DVD-RW drive or mayb it's these new DVD-R's which i bought recently from a warehouse which had a massive sale. I got 100 dvd-r's for like $11 canadian and i was so happy until now.

 

So my questions are as follows

 

1) what would you do to find out if your dvd-rw drive is dying ?

 

2) what would you do to find out if it's your dvd-rw drive or your blank dvds which are corrupt

 

Thx for all the help in advance

Edited November 7, 2006 by unstopabl3

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

Hmm.... you haven't given us much to work with. A log from one of your recent burns would have been nice. That aside, the first thing I'd do is uninstall your IDE controllers within Device Manager and see if that fixes the problem. It certainly won't hurt.

[unstopabl3]

My bad i honestly dont know how i forgot to add the log file. I had it all ready for posting !!! My mistake here it is guys.

ImgBurn.log

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

Good media. Not sure about the drive though. As I said above, uninstall your IDE controllers. The reason why can be found in the FAQ.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ring dell and tell them it's broken.

 

You will of course have to be sure that it is! Try buring to at least 4 different media - with different media ID's.

 

If they won't do anything about it, you'll have to buy an external drive. Or rather any old USB case (Icy Box for instance) and a normal drive.