Wont recognize burned disk - Toshiba PA3761U-1DV2 DVD-RAM Burner

Open Start menu
Click the right mouse button on Computer
On the pop out menu click on Manage
In the left hand menu click on Disk Manage
Your drive should show here if it is plugged in.
Delete all partitions
Now create a partition, format it how you want.

Either:
* the disk you're inserting is not "empty" -- try it on a different computer;
* you should try a different manufacturer of "blank" disks;
* you need to upgrade the "firmware" inside your CD-writer, to recognize more brands of "blank" media;
* the CD-reader is malfunctioning -- when you "cancel" the burn-attempt, and insert a commercially-produced program CD or commercially-produced audio CD, can those disks be properly read?
* you have two CD/DVD devices in your computer, and you're inserting the "blank" disk into the "wrong" device.

Hi As your drive is burning cds but wont burn dvds, I suggest your try other brands of dvds and a different burning program.I use Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 FREE, which you can down load free from the web.Hope this helps you.
Regards Bill

Hello, Consuelo.

I'm making the assumption that your CD drive did burn CDs and now does not.

It's possible that your CD drive is faulty. But, some suggestions:

Run a disk drive head cleaner.

Try different CDs

Reinstall the CD driver (Device Manager - Right-click on the CD drive and select "update")

Hope this helps.

If this is just a CD-ROM drive then you can't burn disks, it's only a reader. You need a CD burner, or CD-RW kind of drive.

If you have more than 1 cd/dvd drive in your computer, you have to make sure that it's in the right one for it to boot from CD. Also, if you downloaded and burned WinXP to a disk, you have to make sure that you burned the image to the disk the right way.

There is a slight possibility that your drivers could be corrupt or may not be there at all. You can check that by going to the device manager and reloading the drivers. You can also try doing a system restore back to the time when your drive was working. Most likely, I would think that your cd drive would need to be replaced.

My Optorite DD0405 will not burn a DVD+R DL disk? is this because its not supported by the burner? I have Nero 9 and would like to burn 4.8 GB of a file from my desk top to a DVD DL with 8.5 GB space. How can I do this
Thank You

I have different installation disks for Sound Blaster audio cards Including Audigy versions if you need copies drivers or software.

This does sound like a defective drive, most likely a laser / reader issue, because the refractive properties of the CDR is different from a "pressed" disk it looks like thia failed TOC seek issue, the head starts at the center of the disk and reads outwards, the click noise is most likeley the head reaching the terminus (the outer limit of the motorised movement), the drive then unable to find the TOC gives up and decides the disk is unreadable. if this drive is within the manufacturer's Warrantee period I would reccommend sending it back.