CD burner will no longer burn cds
Hi,
I have just updated to leopard (10.5), and now my cd burner no longer works when I go to burn a cd. The drive can read a disc fine and even sees the blank discs when they are put in, but fails to write on them.
I have tried using toast and iTunes and still got the same result. In iTunes, It builds the disc correctly, then initializes, and says its writing the first track, but fails to do anything as the status bar never fills up, the disc just spins, sounding like it is writing. I leave it there for a period of time, and the status bar still never moves. In order for it to cancel burning, I have to force quit iTunes. The disc then appears on the desktop with the correct # of tracks and time, but its is just a bunch of buzzing on each track. When I try using toast, it just gets to initializing and freezes.
It sounds as if its some driver issue as the drive itself functions well. It is a Pioneer DVD-RW and was added after I got the mini, so its not the stock Super Drive.
Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: hockeyboy
Try creating a new account and see if you can burn. If so, the problem you are having is local to your normal account. If not...well, if not the problem is probably a bad OS install though it might be hardware. The only way to find out would be to do the new OS install.
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