BluRay Burner and DVD Burner will access the disk and then disappear and then access the disk again constantly.
Hi, I have a Dell system maxed out. I have both a DVD Burner and a BluRay Burner drive in the system. I just had to replace the fan on the CPU as the plastic that would hold it onto the mother board broke. I have a 120GB SSD as my main
and a 600GB 10,000 RPM drive as my secondary drive. Because I did not realize the Fan was the problem keeping the system from booting up all the way. Which never had any problems before I had to put the system into storage when I retired from the Air
Force last year. So any ways I rebuilt the system back with Windows 7 Ultimate. Everything was working fine. So I started installing all my other programs. Over the next several days I did not notice any problems. Until I went
to play one of my games that requires a Disk to be in the drive to verify it was a OEM disk. When I went to play I noticed the game kept asking for the disk even though the disk was already in the drive. Went to my System display and noticed that
the disk would show up for a few seconds and then disappear and then the drive would access the disk again and then disappear. This keeps happening in both my drives. I have read though the forums and this is not anything to do with the disk drive
disappearing that I see all over the forums. Also, when I start the computer up from the DVD or BluRay drive it starts up with no problems. So it is not anything to do with the hardware. I believe this is something to do with some software I may
have installed or something, but I don't believe it is hardware. Now I see that it has duplicated my Two optical media drives. If I can't get someone to help me fix this, I may have to go through the process and re-install the system and my other
software to see if that fixes the problem. Like I said I have never had this problem before.
Thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas.
If the paste wasn't changed it will lead to heating problems, something that will show in different ways all the time, but thsi isn't the issue here.
Could it bee that you accidentally moved the cables to the drive on the motherboard when you changed the fan? Make sure it's correctly connected in both ends.
It could also be that the drivers for the SATA-controller needs to be updated, try and download the latest ones from the manufacturers webpage.
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Andreas Molin
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Many times the error is due to song, album or artist names with unacceptable punctuation in them. iTunes does not tell you why and the error message and Google searches and Apple support/discussion forum details are sketchy… but in most cases its “illegal” punctuation in the song name, artist or album. I isolated at lest the apostrophe ‘ there are probably other illegal name punctuations too.
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THE CHALLENGE
Even if the playlist name does not have punctuation, if ANY playlist song name/artist/album does, the DVD burn will fail. Removing the offending songs from the playlists results in a successful burn but hey, I WANT those other songs too!
POSSIBLE WORK AROUNDS
Changing actual song file name – even if you change the name in iTunes (Get Info, Info, change name, artist, album) the actual song file names are not updated and continue to have the punctuation error resulting in a burn failure.
It appears that the actual file name needs to be changed. This can be a challenge. If you change only the file name you need to add modified file back into iTunes and the old file link is now broken. This is a bigger problem if that song file is in multiple playlists (the old ones are broken and the new one needs to be substituted). This is a REAL problem if you have 2,800 songs with an ‘ in them (like I do).
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I’ve seen many, many unanswered questions about iTunes CD and DVD burning problems that will likely be solved if we can collectively develop and document a workaround. So, here is
THE QUESTION
What is the best way to rename (or retag) MP3 song files to eliminate punctuation and update iTunes and playlists so these songs can be burned to CD or DVD without violating the undocumented illegal punctuation restriction? The work around may differ for OS X vs Windows users so help on both would be appreciated.
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