disk can't be burned because device failed to calibrate the laser level of this media

Does anybody have an answer to my title? (Disk can't be burned because device failed to calibrate the laser level of this media) I have tried several things that I've found on the web. I tried the air, credit card wrapped in a soft cloth and a cd soaked in alcohol. I continue to get the same message. I did improve the actual acceptance and playing of a dvd, which I couldn't when I started all this. The DVD player would beep, boop and beep some more and then spit it out.

'puter and OS would help and what software for burning?


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Have you tried both a CD and DVD in the drive? I've gotten that message before, particularly from Toast, and found later that the drive was failing. It may play/burn a CD and not a DVD or vice versa. If I recall correctly I think the CD and DVD are read by lasers of differing wavelengths allowing the possibility of working for one type of disc and not the other.

I'm trying to load some pictures on a CD-R