DVD Burner Dirty?

This is almost always the first sign of a failing DVD burner from my experience. There's probably nothing to be done other than just going out and getting a replacement.

I don't normally say 'it's broken -go buy a new one' very often but I've seen probably 100+ drives exhibit this at my previous job and completely die within the next month.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Not likely since he's getting power calibration issues in his DVD burning application.

Power calibration issues basically means the laser is not getting to a high enough wavelength to burn the disc. Reading a disc requires a longer (lower power) wavelength compared to burning a disc so usually a burner will fail to burn discs first then fail to read discs later on. In some cases this could actually be caused by a bad power supply but normally OS lockups or reboots will accompany a failed burn when this is the problem.

If you had bought the same brand drive twice it might be time to consider a different manufacturer.

There's nowhere I can't reach.