BlizzardUK Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 (edited) For some reason I am suffering from a very annoying problem with my new GGW-H20L drive. Now given the expense of the discs I only have 2, one is a Verbatim BD-RE disc and the other just a write once BD-R. It worked fine for 2 weeks, except for a conflict with a Creative driver (the drive tray kept opening and closing, this was found to be a Creative Labs driver for Xi-Fi conflicting with it, so I ended the task). Now all of a sudden I can't erase the disc, I have erased it approx 8 times so far and up to this point it was fine and worked, I am sure it can be erased more then that. I can't see any scratches. I have tried various software to erase it, but they all get stuck at 100 percent, including ImgBurn, and then I can't do anything on my PC, no software will load, so I have to reset my PC. The reason I am posting here, is because I think you guys are probably the smartest out of all the forums I know, so although the problem happens with all writing software this forum is the place I think can fix it. Is it likely to be the disc at fault (I can't try another at the moment due to the Edited March 15, 2008 by BlizzardUK
blutach Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Try a new disk. They can go off. But I understand your pain, given the cost involved. Regards
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Try burning in discovery mode, that's all a quick erase really is only it writes zeroes to more sectors. A full erase issues the actual format command first.
BlizzardUK Posted March 15, 2008 Author Posted March 15, 2008 Thanks for info. I will buy another disc then I guess. I just tried the Discovery Mode as suggested, and it went incredibly slowly at 0.1 and 0.2 speed and then now has got stuck at 9%. For about 20 minutes it has been stuck at 9%, sadly I am not getting an error message, just a 0 speed with no movement. Would I be write in thinking this sounds more disc based then hardware ? As I am a bit paranoid my unit may be faulty, as obviously I would prefer it to be the disc if anything. I don't think I know any shops around here that sell BD discs, so I will have to await postage. P.S : See image attached (also yes, I did disable AnyDVD). Thanks for your help !!
mmalves Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Go to Tools/Settings/Write tab, enable both DVD-RAM / BD-RE FastWrite (*) and Prefer Format Without Spare Areas (*) then hit OK. Now try a Full Erase and/or Discovery mode
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