Won't burn anymore on hl-dt-st dvdram gsa-t20l

[codsmith]

I have always used imgburn to burn my backups and such, but I have been having a reoccurring problem for several months. I have a burner in my asus laptop, hl-dt-st dvdram gsa-t20l, its an LG from what I find and has no new firmware anywhere on the net. It has worked in the past.

 

I am using brand new DL Verbatim disks and I know it is not the media or the files because I can burn them just fine on another computer. I have tried uninstalling imgburn and reinstalling, uninstalling and reinstalling the drive, making sure all my IDEs are up-to-date and still nothing. Also, I don't have iTunes or Safari and have already seen those posts. I really have no idea what to do and would appreciate any help.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Try cleaning it.

 

Are the verbatims the 8x (MKM-003-00) ones or the 2.4x (MKM-001-00) ones?

 

That latter are likely to be more compatible.

[codsmith]

Wow, I almost don't believe it, but cleaning it did work. Thought I was going to go crazy trying to figure out how to fix it. I feel stupid, but thanks for the help

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Laptop drives get dirty quickly because the laser is always visible and people put their grubby fingers on it (all be it by accident!).