I've got another dead drive in less than 2 months it seems. The drive is a Pioneer DVR-112D. I tried to burn an audio CD the other day, but after Nero took a strangely long time to spool up it claimed it was unable to burn to the disk and that an error occured. A similar problem happened when I tried to use WMP to burn the disk. Updated drive firmware, still doesn't work. I reboot into XP Pro (I was in Vista 32 originally) and have the same problem. I take the drive out of the PC and put it into my old PC (P4) and have the exact same problem again. I try two different brands of CD, I try burning a DVD with Imgburn, nothing works. The drive still reads disks perfectly as far as I can tell. I've tried everything I can think of. If it has the same problem on two different computers, the drives faulty, right? I should be able to get a swap easily enough from the store I bought it from. The drive sounds totally normal, except that it makes a lot of noise when trying to burn, it sounds to me like the laser head is moving back and forth over and over for some reason. All the disks that were used still read perfectly as "Blank CD" or DVD when put in again, so its not actually doing anything to them. I just thought I would post in case I don't need to have it swapped or have to buy a new drive if anyone has any ideas.
Unfortunately Matt... since you've been able to replicate the same problem on two different systems, it's almost certainly a problem with the drive... again I guess you're just unlucky m8 I've never - ever had a problem with any of the drives I've bought over the years! Touches wood (/head )
