I have a small problem at the moment, for some reason, my DVD-RAM drive (NEC ND-4571A) thinks that some populated disks (backups of my mothers digital photos from my old system) are blank. A good few weeks back, I used the same DVD-RAM drive read them no problem at all, and a few days back, I managed to write an ISO to a DVD-RW disk to install openSUSE along side Windows XP and it worked fine.
Initially I thought the disks were broken somehow, but I tested them on my laptop, and they work fine - another odd thing (going back to the PC in question) is when I start up Windows XP, the drive reads the disks fine, but when I ejected it and put it back in/put a simular disks in, Windows saw this as a blank disk again.
I used CDburnerXP to burn the disks
I am not sure if this is caused by Service Pack 3, I managed to recover the data off the disks with ISObuster though, ISObuster marked my files on the drive as corrupt but transfered perfectly well to the hard disk and they turned out fine. This is worrying me a bit, could this be caused by Service Pack 3 for Windows XP or is this the first signs of my drive dieing?
This seems to be only happening to DVD-RW media
Initially I thought the disks were broken somehow, but I tested them on my laptop, and they work fine - another odd thing (going back to the PC in question) is when I start up Windows XP, the drive reads the disks fine, but when I ejected it and put it back in/put a simular disks in, Windows saw this as a blank disk again.
I used CDburnerXP to burn the disks
I am not sure if this is caused by Service Pack 3, I managed to recover the data off the disks with ISObuster though, ISObuster marked my files on the drive as corrupt but transfered perfectly well to the hard disk and they turned out fine. This is worrying me a bit, could this be caused by Service Pack 3 for Windows XP or is this the first signs of my drive dieing?
This seems to be only happening to DVD-RW media