Re: Satellite L500-14N (PSLJ3E) - no DVD burning

Hello
Since a couple of weeks my dvd-burner won't burn anymore. everytime i try to write things to a dvd, i get an error, but reading works fine. furthermore I've no problems with cds. i already tryed 3 programms (Nero 9, CloneDVD2 and the Windows own programm), all 3 types of DVDs (-R/+R/+RW) and installed Windows 7 to test, but nothing helped. Is there any possibility to get things right without buying an external DVD drive?
I'm grateful for every help

Its not that expensive to buy a external dvd burner(if you need one ) , it will cost you like 20 -30 pounds but if you want to install stuff just use power iso , or any other software that can make a bootable usb and install the software from your usb and win7 too if you put your bios to read from usb instaid of hard drive first
edit: if you have an iso image you can use daemon tools that emulates the use of cd/dvd so it recognizes the image and installs the program /game like a regular cd/dvd does
so more over you can do whatever the cd/dvd does with a usb and you dont need to buy a new external DVD drive
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@xaver
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I left the computer at what it was doing when I wrote the previous
post. I came back to it an hour later or so (I had stopped counting
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blob, in the progress bar, and the blob was rectangular rather than
rounded. Very odd! Something different had happened, like a change of
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Great!
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I still don't know if the process I described in the first post was
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ended eventually. If I wanted to be really sure I could re-restore
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partitions.
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1) Do you get an error message if you try to open Internet Explorer or do nothing happen?
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