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Dell Cd/Dvd burner not working properly

My Dell computer is only a year old. The "d" drive works fine, but the "e" drive below it just started acting up. I generally burn dvd's using Intervideo DVD copy and cd's through iTunes. The drive will read both CD's and DVD's, but it will not burn or play them. I used a drive cleaner disc which fixed the problem for a few days, but it's back to doing the same thing. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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  • Sallysue Nov 11, 2007

    I have a Dell Computer with a combo drive and seem that I can not burn Audio Cd's that I downloaded on my compter. i als call the Techincal Support and they did not seem to help me. So I need help trying to find a burner for my computer....

  • Ben1824 Mar 07, 2008

    My Dell Inspiron 6400 is only about a year old. The CD / DVD - ROM / write drive has stopped reading ordinary CD's and some CD & DVD - ROMs. Any ideas?

  • Anonymous Sep 22, 2008

    I have the same problem i just cant burn ive tried different Cd's DVDs different programs u name it ive dun it

  • Anonymous Nov 25, 2008

    I have the exact same problem. My Dell XPS 400 is about 1 year old and the CDRW stopped working. The DVD player works fine.



    Please let me know if you find a patch.

  • Anonymous Dec 10, 2008

    Mine won't even read at all. They show up in "my computer" but as empty??

  • falconburygi
    falconburygi Apr 15, 2013

    ive had my lap top for 3 days and mine just went out i put my discs in and it says there is none in the burner even though it worked less than 7 hours ago

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I have a Dell XPS 400 that's about 3 years old. I have a DVD reader and a DVD-RW device. The former works - the latter takes forever to read discs (particularly DVD data discs.)

I'm starting to think some of the generic DVD-RW devices Dell uses in its computers are prone to early failure. The DVD-RW in my XPS-400 was called "HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H21N".

I'm going to try cleaning it, and then just swap it out for a better device.

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I have found subtle but substantial differences in the burnability of discs from different manufacturers. If possible, try a range of different discs from different mfrs. You may luck out and quickly find one that burns every time.

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