Disks no longer burning

For some reason, my g4 will no longer recognize blank cds or dvds. It reads regular disks just fine, but if I put in a blank disk, it spins, then nothing. Doesn't mount it, doesn't even recognize its there. I have two burners, an internal CD burner, and an external USB 2 DVD burner. Neither of them will recognize any blank disks.
This also happened before I upgraded to Leopard, so its not 10.5 that is the problem. I don't recall installing any new software before that or messing with anything, I just put a disk in to burn from iTunes one day, and it didn't work.

Launch System Profiler and check under Disc Burning - does it show the drives as capable of burning discs? There have been problems where burn support would suddenly die - changing to another user account and checking for burn support would yield the answer if this is software or hardware related. I'm guessing it's software and an Archive & Install is the easy fix.
-Douggo

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Message appears "The drive reported an error Sense Key = Hardware error sense code = 0x44, 0xD6 INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE
SINCE I INSTALLED MAVERICKS, CAN NO LONGER BURN DISKS. I had Toast 10.4 and was persuaded to upgrade to 10.09. When I downloaded and replaced my Toast folder in apps I got a message saying "unlicensed vendor" go to app store. An inferior product was on sale for £13,99.
What is going on here. Once again I am confronted by Apple "dis-abling technology. Why could I not get an upgrade from Roxio?

You have always been able to burn even copy protected tracks to an Audio CD. That hasn't changed. All tracks sold on the iTunes Store now are DRM free. Track prices now range form .69 to 1.29 but the price is unrelated to copy protection.
You may still be using the same brand/type of discs but are you still burning in the same format? When you select the playlist that you want to burn to a CD, then press "Burn CD", you get a dialog box that offers you options. Be sure you have "Audio CD" selected.
If, what you're really trying to do is burn an MP3 cd, you'd first need to make sure that all of the tracks in the playlist are mp3s. If not, you'd need to convert them. You'd need to make sure that your import settings were set to mp3 by going into Preferences>General and pressing the Import Options button and selecting the desired mp3 settings. Then, you select the tracks you want to convert, and from the Advanced menu, choose Create mp3 version. Note: this creates a new mp3 track. It doesn't change the existing track. And, it doesn't work on protected tracks. Protected tracks, as noted above, can be burned to an Audio CD which you can then use as you would any other Audio CD.
Best of luck.

Can no longer burn dvds or upload

Recently my premier elements 11 stopped being able to burn a dvd or upload to youtube...
dvd just goes to indexing but never continues. Upload to youtube stops at 81 % and freezes.
No real error messages. Tried re-installing software but does the same thing.
Worked for last 4 years on same PC running windows 8...now wont?
HELP!

(I'm replying to your comments from below and: I'm including 2 other individuals (CC) in this reply; asking for their help as well, if they have any potential answers for me.) Please advice ...
I'm using Adobe Premier Elements 11 on an HP Windows Pro 8.1 desk top PC. It's been working perfect since I loaded it in 2011. I produce and create a 30 minute TV show for a couple of my local community TV Stations in the area as well as make videos on real estate and publish them to You Tube (Finding New Neighbors <<< see my You Tube Network for sample of my videos). I also create DVD's for real estate properties to use during open houses and as marketing tools for real estate. I also make training videos for the local Board of Realtor's. Uploading these videos to You Tube and burning DVD's is very critical to my business.
I currently have episodes of the TV show ready to burn but I can't get them to burn so I can turn them into the TV Stations for airing.
It was working perfect until recently; however, I can no longer burn a DVD or upload to You Tube. The edit program seems to be working fine. I can still create videos, edit and view videos on the program but I can't send them anywhere to be used in any way. When I attempt to burn a disk; it gets ready to burn then nothing happens. When I attempt to upload to You Tube; it will "Render" and start to Upload but then it get's to about 61% to 99% (uploaded) then freezes up and never finishes.
I've had our office computer support person in working on my PC for the past 4 days and we're getting no where. He did find a virus and cleaned it out. Everything "seems" to be working now except my DVD burner and uploading videos to You Tube. I even reloaded the Adobe Premier Elements 11 software to see if that could be an issue. It made no difference.
Somehow, the program is no longer speaking properly to whatever pathway it needs to, in order for the DVD's or You Tube to receive the video/s and finish.
I really need to get this fixed; otherwise, months worth of work is lost and I will not be able to create or publish any future videos. I really need this working. Any help would be appreciated immensely.
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I reinstalled I-Tunes several weeks ago. Since then I can no longer burn MP3 Discs with Title and Artist Info. Sometimes it only burns every 3rd song. No Audio CD it seems to function OK. The version has the "cloud" but I don't know if that matters or

I reinstalled I-Tunes several weeks ago. I can no longer burn MP3 Disk with Song/Artist info onto disc. It comes up as No Artist/No Title on car CD unit. Old MP3 Disk previously recorded still show all info. Sometimes only every 3rd song is on the MP3 CD. On Audio Disc there is no change and all info still shows up. The new I-Tunes version has the "cloud" on it if that could make a difference. In the select Burn CD mode I can select testing and add song info for Audio Disk but it shows shadowed out for MP3/Data. I added and removed ID tagging from my list to see if that made a difference but it didn't.
Any Thoughts?
Jim

This may help. Audio files are actaully in the DATA folder. These can be editted with Soundbooth then they must be imported intot the specific slide in the Powerpoint presentation. Publish the presentation (as you'll read below) and *should* work This reply came from robva65 [email protected]
Let's try this: *Publish* the PPT deck you have. What you'll end up with is a set of files and folders, but I want you to look for the *data folder* that's created as a result of the publishing process. (Unless you specify where you're publishing to, Presenter will publish to a directory called "My Adobe Presentations" by default, so you may have to look there on your harddrive) Inside the data folder will be a list of mp3 files, which, if everything goes smoothly, should make it much, much easier to see which audio is used by a specific slide.
Here's what I mean: for example, after publishing, I have a data folder and inside I found the following file: a24x9x3.mp3 As I double click the mp3 file (which causes it to play using Windows Media on my laptop), I can hear that it corresponds to my slide 9 in my PPT deck. And there's corresponding mp3 files for each and every slide I have in my deck. I'm clicking another file (wouldn't it be nice to see what I'm doing???) a24x20x3.mp3, and that file corresponds to my slide 20 content in PowerPoint.
So again, give publishing in PowerPoint a shot and see if that makes it any easier. Well...not nearly as easy as recording in Audition/Soundbooth/Audacity, but it's close enough to hopefully dig you out of that hole you're in now.
Hope this helps ~rich

Disk image successful; burn error due to 'ghost' image

I have burned 100s of DVDs successfully. I always burn them from their disk images. My last project took longer because I ran into what I think is an unusual problem.
I created a disk image and burned a DVD, but then decided there were a couple of places where more edits would make a better movie. I went back to my iMovie, made the edits, and opened up iDVD and created another disk image. Both disk images had had the same name, but that shouldn't have been a problem since the first one had been trashed before the second one was created. When I opened Disk Utility to burn the disk, the disk image (which was on my desktop) appeared in DUs window.
However, when I tried to burn from the disk image, the burn failed at the end....so that the DVD played up to the last 3 min of the movie. The message during the burn was something like 'burning disk 5' but that was not the name of my project. The message at the end was that the burn had failed due to error 00000000500--(not sure of the exact number of 0s). The disk was ejected with the burn almost complete.
I had not had this occur before, and I don't know why it happened. I have no idea what or where 'disk 5' is. That is not how I name my projects and have never seen that. The disk image I was burning from had the name of '1995 Part 2' and, after the disk was ejected, that disk image could not be deleted from Disk Utility. It seemed to be referencing some 'disk 5' file.
I subsequently had a successful burn by creating another disk image (found more edits to tweak) and naming it something different so I could be sure to burn the correct one since the other image was still in DU.
This time it all worked, but the first disk image in Disk Utility's window would not delete. I finally got it out by deleting the other one, closing DU, reopening it and finally it could be deleted.
That 'ghost' file for disk 5 still is a puzzle to me. I would like to know if I did anything to cause it so that I can avoid the problem in the future.

Any chance the first disk image was still mounted on your desktop when you put its .img file into the trash?
Thanks! I think you nailed it!
I had tried playing from the disk image with DVD player first and it played fine, but then I decided to do more edits so I trashed the .img file. I forgot that I had mounted it. When I tried to burn the second disk image, Disk Utility must have still used the first image, even though it had been trashed, because it was still mounted.
However, the icon showing when something is mounted was not there.....until after I had made the final image and then I could eject the mounted disk whose path on DU showed that the .img file was indeed in the trash.
Do you think that would have made its name change to 'disk 5' and would that have caused the burn to stop just 3min short of the end?

Since loading Lion I can no longer burn photos form iPhoto on a dvd for archive purposes

Since loading Lion on my MacBook Pro, I can no longer burn photos form iphoto for archarving purposes. I used to load the dvd and it would showup on the screen then drag highlighted photos onto the dvd. Now, dvd only shows up sometimes and when it does, it tells me the new disk is full. How can such an easy task become obsolete with this update. I have also tried using idvd for archiving purposes but this process will only allow viewing. I want to be able to reload photos back onto the computer at a later date.

I habe the same problem and cant find a helpful post on the web!
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Data disks unreadable after burn

I've tried several play lists and have made 4 coasters. I set my burn setting to Data CD/DVD. Inserted a CD-R and tried burning several play lists. As soon as the burn complets I get a popup indicating "You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that os x can read". I used to be able to do this before upgrading to iTunes 5. I also tried MP3 burning, but can no longer burn anything I've ripped to ACC format. I haven't tried burning from the file systems yet. I expect this is an iTune limitation and not an OSX limitation. I hope... If so, I may have to burn from my networked PC. What a major pain.
I'm running iTunes 5.0.1 (4)
Anyone else have this problem?
Thanks,
Alfredo

I'm having a similar problem. I don't get an error message though and the disk just shows up on my desktop, but then when I try to open a file on the disk, my computer goes into a loop and after a while the Finder and my whole system crashes.
Same thing, I've only had this since iTunes 5.0.1, It used to work just fine on 4.
Pim

How do you use disk utility to burn a bootable .iso dvd?

Anybody have a clue on how you use disk utility to burn a .iso bootable dvd disk?
I'm trying to install windows 7 rc into virtual box in OS X 10.5.7 and cannot figure out how to do this. I've already installed the windows 7 beta in virtual box and was able to make a bootable dvd disk with the .iso file on it but have no clue how I did this.
I've been searching the web but most tips are for older version of OS X.
Thanks to anybody who answers.

It's so easy, You can just burn an .iso file using DVD Creator Std instead of Disk Utility, only 3 steps to finish bur ning your .iso files:
http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-dvd-creator-standard.html#131

Upgraded to v. 6.0.1, can no longer burn CDs. Details below. Please help!

Like many other users, I can no longer burn CDs since my recent upgrade to version 6.0.1. I was able to burn CDs with no problems before this upgrade, but now when I click "Burn Disc", iTunes freezes with no error message. I have to exit out using Ctrl-Alt-Del, as iTunes is not responding.
I have a Gateway Profile 4 with Windows XP Pro. CD diagnostic info is below for both blank and recorded CDs.
Please help this frustrated user!!!!
Here is my CD diagnostics with a blank, recordable CD:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Gateway Profile4
iTunes 6.0.1.3
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: AFS2K (3.1.21.0), CDR4_XP (5.3.2.35),
UpperFilters: pwd_2k (5.3.2.35), Cdralw2k (5.3.2.35), GEARAspiWDM (2.0.4.3),
Video Driver: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 \GeForce2 MX/MX 400
IDE\DiskWDCWD1200JB-00GVA0____________________08.02D08, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskHP_____psc_2205_______1.00, Bus Type USB
IDE\CdRomTOSHIBADVD-ROM_SD-R2212________________1713___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
If you have multiple drives on the same IDE or SCSI bus, these drives may interfere with each other.
Some computers need an update to the ATA or IDE bus driver, or Intel chipset. If iTunes has problems recognizing CDs or hanging or crashing while importing or burning CDs, check the support site for the manufacturer of your computer or motherboard.
Current user is administrator.
D: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212, Rev 1713
Media in drive is blank.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 4 8 10 12 16.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 4 8.
And here is my CD Diagnostics with a purchased music CD:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Gateway Profile4
iTunes 6.0.1.3
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: AFS2K (3.1.21.0), CDR4_XP (5.3.2.35),
UpperFilters: pwd_2k (5.3.2.35), Cdralw2k (5.3.2.35), GEARAspiWDM (2.0.4.3),
Video Driver: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 \GeForce2 MX/MX 400
IDE\DiskWDCWD1200JB-00GVA0____________________08.02D08, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskHP_____psc_2205_______1.00, Bus Type USB
IDE\CdRomTOSHIBADVD-ROM_SD-R2212________________1713___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
If you have multiple drives on the same IDE or SCSI bus, these drives may interfere with each other.
Some computers need an update to the ATA or IDE bus driver, or Intel chipset. If iTunes has problems recognizing CDs or hanging or crashing while importing or burning CDs, check the support site for the manufacturer of your computer or motherboard.
Current user is administrator.
D: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212, Rev 1713
Audio CD in drive.
Found 11 songs on CD, playing time 36:13 on Audio CD.
Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Track 2, start time 03:20:15
Track 3, start time 07:12:17
Track 4, start time 11:10:15
Track 5, start time 14:47:52
Track 6, start time 17:57:30
Track 7, start time 21:50:42
Track 8, start time 25:46:67
Track 9, start time 28:28:45
Track 10, start time 30:18:32
Track 11, start time 33:15:50
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 4 8 10 12 16.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 4 8.
Gateway Profile 4 Windows XP Pro

The answer is in the diagnostic! Go to the Toshiba site (I've been so nice and found the link for you!)
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/storage/Index.asp?page=PFT&nav=ISH_ARC&model=SDR22 12
Try updating your drives firmware. Click 'Firware Updates' on the right hand side of this page, then follow the instructions and download the update, then install. See if that helps. Its worth updating the firmware anyway :P

Can no longer burn cds or re-install itunes

For some reason I can no longer burn a cd from Itunes. When I try to re-install itunes i get this message: 1628 failed to complete installation. I also get this message everytime Itunes starts : Warning!
The registry settings used by itunes drivers for importing and burning cds and dvds are missing . This can be a result of installing other cd burning software. Please re-install itunes.
I am able however to import with no problems.

The registry settings used by itunes drivers for importing and burning cds and dvds are missing . This can be a result of installing other cd burning software. Please re-install itunes.
for some advanced techniques for dealling with that one, see:
iTunes for Windows: Troubleshooting CD issues caused by device filters
but if you'd prefer to try some quicker and dirtier techniques (that don't involve a registry edit), post back and we can run through those as well.

Can no longer burn CDs in iTunes

I have successfully been burning CDs in iTunes until recently. I can now no longer burn an audio CD. The CDs I am using are the same as before (CD-R, same make etc) and I am trying to burn albums purchased through iTunes. No error message comes up, it just doesn't burn. I have the latest version of iTunes loaded but can't remember when I loaded this. Perhaps my problems have occurred since then? Can anyone help?

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Can No Longer Burn DVDs

I have a Lenovo G700 series laptop and have recently found that I can no longer burn DVDs. I can burn CDs and the drive can read DVDs & CDs.
I trawled the forums for any clue of what has gone askew including the registry fix, tried different media, different burning programs, files vs disc images and still no result.
I, and also a friend who works in IT suspect a hardware fault and, since still under warranty, contacted the support helpline who were quick to answer. went through all the options for diagnostics and came down the "hit the system with the One-Key-Recovery" option to reset it back to factory preset condition to see if that fixed it.
Problem........
I have spent a very long time getting this machine set up with my home studio software etc and have large amounts of data which beggers the question, do I want to go through all that and how do I back up all my data prior to that as the machine will be wiped with no DVD writer. I assured the guy on the phone that we we almost certain that it was the ODD hardware that had failed and could he send out a replacement?
Being still under warranty, I would have to return it to the service center where they would......... guess what, reset to factory preset prior to fitting the new hardware to ensure that the hardware was indeed faulty.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!
Catch 22
Why can they not just send out a replacement drive for me to fit myself?
Warranty runs out in September which is probably how long it will take me to zip and backup my data using CDs or for out a pile of cash on a USB HDD all for the price of a replacement drive.
Can someone please help?

Anyone know how I can get someone from Lenovo Customer Support to read & reply to this post? I'm not that sussed with forum methods.

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As the title says, I can no longer burn DVD's. I can burn CD's but not DVD's. I get Sense= code errors and stuff no matter what burner I try out. It doesn't always want to read the DVD's either but ejects them one- two times before it surrenders and starts reading the disc. I've had this Mac for about 1.4 years and I haven't been sitting around every day since, slotting 30 discs in and out of it all day long, i.e the drive hasn't seen that much action to justify this problem.
It can't have anything to do with the media as I've been reading a lot about since the DVD's I try to use have worked perfectly fine before this problem popped up. And I find it hard to believe that my $3200 Mac aint equipped to burn these things and especially not since it was able to earlier. It stopped burning about 2-3 months ago so my guesstimate is that one update or the other from Apple screwed things up but I have no idea how to find out what that might be or more to the point how to solve it.
So, since I strongly disbelieve the media factor ( I have tried different brands and that if it would only be able to burn Verbatim discs then that would be ridiculous ) I wonder if there's any real solution to this. Any firmware to be found for it or some such? I've tried to browse around the Downloads section but can't seem to find anything that addresses this issue. I've also googled quite a bit about it and I've found many others who experience the same problem(s) but never any real solution for it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

A lot of folks have found that running a DVD Lens Cleaner disc through can often fix this sort of calibration and sensor problem, it only takes a small spec of dirt or dust to cause errors ...

Can no longer burn audio cd's -- urgent -- is iTunes update defective?

I'm a composer-- we're getting ready to record another cd and I desparately need help here!!
I can no longer burn an audio cd from a play list! It burns but not as an audio. I also looked on directions and I'm supposed to be able to do this.
These are my tunes that I wrote and uploaded into the library and then moved to a play list
When trying to figure out what happened, I noticed that itunes had been automatically updated to the most current version on my computer --
I was still on 10.3 which doesn't support it -- I've since downloaded the 10.3.9 (plus checked other required software that's supposed to be updatyed) and still cannot burn the cd's
Please help --

I won't pretend this is a welcome suggestion...but if worst comes to worst, you could consider purchasing Toast.

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