Hi
I have two commercial DVD discs that have suddenly stopped playing on my NEC DVD burner. One fails to load up at all now most times, so as far as the PC is concerned there is no disc in drive. The other loads up but freezes Power DVD when played. Both worked fine just a few weeks ago, and don't appeared damaged.
They both still play on my standalone player and other DVDs still play on the PC. I did sucessfully burn a copy of the disc that now fails to mount when after mainly attempts it was recognised by the drive. I used DVD Shrink and the copy works fine. When I used DVD Shrink on the second disc it had a I/O error message 44% into the backup. But did sucessfully make a copy using DVD Decrypter. This copy also plays fine. Thankfully this has now rescued the situration but I am still puzzled and a bit worried why this issue occured. Any Ideas?
cheers
bill
. . . hmm: thanks for the decent quantity of data to work with.
Sounds to me like a burner issue - specifically I would suggest with its ability to focus on/read DVD9 leadins. Suggest you try these disks in another burner, then if they work in another burner RMA your NEC [if within any form of warranty].
Burner-reliability seems to be much worse than it was; tho' mercifully the things are now much cheaper: in the last three years I have had 2x faulty Pioneers, 1x BenQ, & 1x Philips [BenQ]. Both BenQs lasted abut a year of moderately heavy use [exceptionally good drives for ripping]; both Pioneers died within six months.
Now have a NEC/Optiarc/Sony 7170A, which is solid within six months of light~ish use but too noisy [as were all the recent Lite-Ons I have owned/used].
