Burning the disc failed because communnication to the disc drive failed

Tanner31593

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Hello everyone,

Ok, well I have a bunch of DVDs stored on a PC with a DVD burner, but the burner would NOT burn them. I reinstalled windows and everything, but still nothing.

So,

I took it out of the PC and plugged it into my external firewire drive and hooked it up on my iMac hoping it would work,
And when i go to burn some .vob files, i get "Burning the disc failed because communnication to the disc drive failed" and it ejects.
I am using Maxell 16x DVD-Rs.
CDs will burn fine, but no luck with the DVDs,
Im assuming this is a drive problem, but i really hope it is not because i really don't feel like buying another DVD drive, unless i could get it for unreasonably cheap, which would be unreasonable. ;D

Thanks,

Tanner.
 
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Tanner31593 said:
Hello everyone,

Ok, well I have a bunch of DVDs stored on a PC with a DVD burner, but the burner would NOT burn them. I reinstalled windows and everything, but still nothing.

So,

I took it out of the PC and plugged it into my external firewire drive and hooked it up on my iMac hoping it would work,
And when i go to burn some .vob files, i get "Burning the disc failed because communnication to the disc drive failed" and it ejects.
I am using Maxell 16x DVD-Rs.
CDs will burn fine, but no luck with the DVDs,
Im assuming this is a drive problem, but i really hope it is not because i really don't feel like buying another DVD drive, unless i could get it for unreasonably cheap, which would be unreasonable. ;D

Thanks,

Tanner.
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I don't believe the problem is with your burner as much as it is with the way the data is stored on the hard disk. My advice would be to run a CHKDSK on the volume that you have the data stored on. In Windows, this would be done by opening the command prompt (Start => Run, type: CMD => hit Enter). Then, type the command using the following syntax:

Code: 
CHKDSK C: /R

Substitute C: for the drive letter that the data is stored on. If your data is stored on the C: drive, the command will prompt you to run CHKDSK at next startup. Reboot your machine and allow it to run.

That would be my first thought. Give it a try and let us know how it goes.
 

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