My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks

AtomicTom wrote:
My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks

What do you mean by "an external usb hard drive and it also acts the
same way"? Did you mean "hard drive" or "DVD drive" ?

Sylvia.

On Dec 28, 7:44*am, Sylvia Else wrote:
AtomicTom wrote:
My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. *i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. *I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. *I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. *Again with the same results..

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks

What do you mean by "an external usb hard drive and it also acts the
same way"? Did you mean "hard drive" or "DVD drive" ?

Sylvia.- Hide quoted text -

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Sorry, yes an external USB dvd drive

AtomicTom wrote:
My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives.

Have you checked the properties of the drive via Windows Explorer to
see if recording is enabled??


I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks

AtomicTom wrote:
On Dec 28, 7:44 am, Sylvia Else wrote:
AtomicTom wrote:
My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.
from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.
I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler
Thanks
What do you mean by "an external usb hard drive and it also acts the
same way"? Did you mean "hard drive" or "DVD drive" ?

Sylvia.- Hide quoted text -

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Sorry, yes an external USB dvd drive

Seems unlikely to be a problem with the firmware of the disk controller
then. I wouldn't expect it to be involved in a USB DVD drive, though I'm
happy to be corrected on this.

Sylvia.

On Dec 28, 8:01*am, Sylvia Else wrote:
AtomicTom wrote:
On Dec 28, 7:44 am, Sylvia Else wrote:
AtomicTom wrote:
My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. *i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.
from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. *I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. *I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. *Again with the same results.
I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler
Thanks
What do you mean by "an external usb hard drive and it also acts the
same way"? Did you mean "hard drive" or "DVD drive" ?

Sylvia.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Sorry, yes an external *USB dvd drive

Seems unlikely to be a problem with the firmware of the disk controller
then. I wouldn't expect it to be involved in a USB DVD drive, though I'm
happy to be corrected on this.

Sylvia.- Hide quoted text -

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Properties sees both burners as ROM

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:26:49 -0800 (PST), AtomicTom
wrote:

My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks


Just guessing, but driver software conflict is most likely th
eproblem. Try removing the last thing you installed (was it the USB
drive?) and see if that helps?

I find that I have, on one computer, two dvd burning programs loaded
and trying to run at the same time. I get similar results (not
exactly, but they don't work). If I shut down one program, then the
other one works OK. Try that, too.

Did you check the properites in File Explorer?

Right click on the drive (with no disc in it BTW) and select properties.

Then check the options under the recording tab.

There is an issue with XP and some drives that lose their recording
abilities. I remember something in the MS XP faqs about that.

- Tim -




In article 34c4b2a2-e091-4bf5-a47f-72dd450e4102
@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com, says...
My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:17:20 -0500, Meat Plow
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:38:18 -0500, PeterD wrote:

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:26:49 -0800 (PST), AtomicTom
wrote:

My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks


Just guessing,

Obviously

but driver software conflict is most likely th
eproblem. Try removing the last thing you installed (was it the USB
drive?) and see if that helps?

Read the part that says "installed a new copy of XP"

I find that I have, on one computer, two dvd burning programs loaded
and trying to run at the same time. I get similar results (not
exactly, but they don't work). If I shut down one program, then the
other one works OK. Try that, too.

Huh?

**** off, meathead, you don't know a bit from a byte.

Don't you need a CD/DVD Burning software such as Nero or NTI before
you can burn any data onto the blank media?

I didn't think XP could write directly to the blank media.. Is this
correct?

Thanks.

Gus wrote:
Don't you need a CD/DVD Burning software such as Nero or NTI before
you can burn any data onto the blank media?

I didn't think XP could write directly to the blank media.. Is this
correct?

It can write CDs, but not DVDs.

Sylvia.

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:54:55 -0800 (PST), Gus
wrote:

Don't you need a CD/DVD Burning software such as Nero or NTI before
you can burn any data onto the blank media?

I didn't think XP could write directly to the blank media.. Is this
correct?

Thanks.

CD no.

DVD yes.

XP can write CDs just fine. Support is somewhat basic, but there.

I have never written a disk using xp software until today. When I put
a blank CD in it and did a properties it showed the disk was full. I
went to the properties and had to enable writing to the CD. I suspect
that it defaults to the disable position upon XP install. I put a
CDRW in it after I enabled writing to test it. It showed full again.
I brought up NTI and erased the CDRW and did a properties on it from
the desktop and it showed empty after that and wrote okay.

I can only suggest that you check to make sure the drives are enabled
to write under the recording tab, they may have all defaulted to off
when you did the xp install..

Hope this helps.

I sorta rambled there on my last post. You don't need NTI to erase
the cdrw disk.. that is just what I used. You can just right click on
it and select the erase function.


G.