Vista - DVD writer no longer burns dvds

The other day, I tried to burn a dvd for my brothers. The drive worked a month ago and now it doesn't. I don't know what happened - I didn't install any new programs or anything like that. The drive in question is an LG GSA-H55L (lightscribe).

When I put in a blank cdr, autorun takes over and asks me what I want to do with the media, but when I try the same thing with a DVD, nothing happens. I have searched online for a fix, but nothing happens. I updated the firmware to 1.05 (latest FW)

I first noticed the problem when using windows dvd maker (wanted menus and chapters for some home movies taken from my canon hg10) uninstalled all my burner software and reinstalled. rolled back the computer to previous state - and nothing solves the problem

tried the instructions from the sticky at Asus drw-2014l1t DVD not working and still no worky


in fact, dvd doesn't work at all, but cd does

Just get a new DVD writer mate. They're very cheep these days.

wish it were that easy... i'm afraid that there is nothing wrong with the drive and its some corrupt file or virus. it worked on day and the next it didn't.

worse comes to worse i guess i can buy a new drive (this one is less than a year old - and i guess i could always pick up some more ram and maybe a new vid card and maybe...

Im sorry m8 but i have had this very thing happen to me several times now and there is no way to fix this apart from getting your self a new DVD drive
you can get them now for as little as £14 that write at 20x or even light scribe ones for around £24

yeah ive come to accept that i have to buy a new one... thanks everyone

dd burner was dead

Hi All.. You may try this:

Please download a patch from the web site provided below:

Restore CD/DVD Drives to Explorer

The web site will say that it is for Windows XP, please ignore it, it works for Vista too

1. Once the web page loads. Please click on XP_CD-DVD-Fix.exe
2. Please click "Run". It will download the file.
3. It is a zip file. Please open it now
4. Once you open the zip file, please Double click on "XP_CD-DVD-Fix.exe"
5. Please click on "Repair" button
6. You will receive a message "Reboot your computer for changes to take affect" Please click on OK
7. Then click on Exit
8. Please do not restart the computer now.

Now please Click on the below provided link to download and install another patch:

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/reg/cd_restore.reg

1. Please copy the entire link and paste it in the address bar of an Internet Explorer and press Enter Key on the keyboard.
2. You will receive a download window. Please select Run.
3. When asked "If you want to add the information to the Registry" click: Yes
4. Please let me know the message you received. Now click OK button.

Now you need to open Device manager.

1. Open Device Manager by following the below steps:
2. Click on Start > select Run-> Type in "devmgmt.msc" without the quotes. Click OK.
3. Has the Device Manager window popped-up?
4. Click on the + sign near CD/DVD.
5. Select the drive name, click the uninstall button (Or right click and please uninstall the drive), and wait about five seconds. (Delete all the drives present under CD/DVD drives. If you are prompted for restart, please do not restart the computer. Please try this steps again.
6. Now in Device manager, click on Action, select Scan for Hardware changes, and then wait for Windows to find and install the CD/DVD drive.
7. When done, the drive name should appear in a Windows message and in Device Manager.

Try this. It may help you

would have been nice if something like that had solved my problem


also noticed that during my journeys into regedit that some of the keys in HLM/...cdromstuff (whatever the exact key was) had portions where i could not access the key "an error is preventing this key from being opened"

also never had the upperfilters or lowerfilters that everyone tells you to delete in order to fix

I just provided the steps by thinking that it may help you. Anyway.. Thansk for te reply.. Cheers.. Sykes