CD burner won't work

I just upgraded to Tiger. The CD/DVD imports just fine on this G3 iBook. I successfully burned one CD. Now when i try to burn a CD it tries to initialize for a minute, then quits with the message, "The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media". Changing the burner settings does nothing. I am trying to use TDK 700mb 52x CD blanks.

I experienced the same problem with my external burner after upgrading to Tiger. I thought that the problem might be with the media, but had the same experience with 3 different CD-R brands. I then thought that since my external burner was almost 5 years old that maybe it was that, so I bought a DVD burner instead. This seemed to fix the laser power calibration problem, but has caused another one.
Now when I burn an audio CD to backup the music I downloaded from the music store the last 2 tracks get munged together and the last 10 seconds of the last song contain a loud warning sirenish kind of sound. This does not seem to happen when I burn an audio CD of music I imported from my CDs, but only when I try to burn songs that I purchased from the music store onto CD. Having gone through about 20 CDs trying to figure out what's causing it I'm not sure if it's the DVD burner, the current version of iTunes, or the encoding on songs from the music store. Interestingly enough if I burn a CD of music I downloaded last year from the music store I don't have this problem. I'm at a loss

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OR -- I even tried to install iTunes on this computer, but I cannot because it is a public computer. It does not have a burner either. Is there anyway to get the songs on this CD into iTunes without a CD burner? or CD drive?

Here's how : http://portables.about.com/od/mp3players/ht/howtocopyRP10.htm
Just remember that the usb drive is the location you're copying to and create the folder on it first. Then copy the music into the folder.
That done delete the music from Real Player.

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New Toshiba Laptops come witha 1 year warranty. See the Warranty link at the top of this page for details.
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

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Hi
I have tried working out the DVD problem from the help menu, no luck, tried the Toshiba online help, but not much use as it turns out to be a user forum, where people help one another.
Couldn't even find a box to ask a question. Pass work is metalicg
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If you do this it says "by enabling C.D. recording function, you cannot right to DVD RAM
I have tried DVD R & DVD RAME TYPE II Rewriteable, neither will format.
I have some software that states what this machine should be able to do and it and the using DVD discs help menu says I should be able to format and record on them.
Can anyone please advise why I can only write to C.D or how to write to DVD?
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Melvyn

Hi
If you want to burn a DVD then you should use an 3rd party burning allocation like Nero.
Nero contains the option to format the rewritable medias like CD RW.
>If you do this it says "by enabling C.D. recording function, you cannot right to DVD RAM
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My device manager shows a code "10"
That suggests an AFS.sys issue. But we'd better doublecheck.
Could you post your diagnostics for us please?
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Hooray hooray hooray! So many times we never hear back what happens and it just makes my day to know when something works!
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Can anyone help?
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I took it to mean that he was working with a blank CD. The drive acts as expected if he is inserting a blank CD and does not have burn capability.
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I just bought a new ipod and installed the software and now my CD/DVD drive won't work at all. Here is my info: Could someone please help!!!
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Dell Computer Corporation Inspiron 5160
iTunes 6.0.4.2
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: ASAPIW2K (6.0.2.0),
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.0.4.3),
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IDE\DiskFUJITSUMHT2080AH_______________________006C___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomSONYDVD+-RW_DW-D56A____________________PDS7___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
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D: SONY DVD+-RW DW-D56A, Rev PDS7
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Hi, I've been trying to get an iMovie project onto a DVD for hours by
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So, now my CD/DVD drive won't work

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So, now I have a new hard drive and a new operating system ... but I had to pay for it in cash, frustration, time, and lost data (my email archive mostly) ... BUT ... now my CD/DVD drive won't work.   I've had to reload software with an external drive.
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Anyone with some thoughts on this?
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