CD Burning problems...

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I'm wondering if anybody can help me with this. I bought a new laptop around a month ago (an Acer Aspire 7540 if that helps), and everything is fine, apart from the fact that it won't burn a CD. I've tried several times to burn music CDs from iTunes, without success, and also tried to put some photos on a CD for a work colleague.

The drive recognises that a blank CD is inserted, but it seems unable to burn any data to it. The drive is a combined DVD and CD writer, and I have successfully created the system backup DVDs. Any ideas? It's driving me mental, but I'm loathe to take the laptop back to the shop incase they send it back to Acer and I lose all my music and photos.
 
Mikesphotaes said:
What burning programme do you use?
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I don't use a dedicated burning program. iTunes has the facility to burn CDs when you create a playlist, and I just used the usual Windows 7 wizard when I tried to create the photo CD
 
Thanks for that, I'll give it a go. I've just tried burning a DVD from iTunes and this seems to be working at the moment. The drive is capable of burning both CDs and DVDs, so it may be a hardware problem, or a problem with the CD-Rs I'm using?
 
Try the Nero, or google free Ashampoo.

See if either will use your CDs
 
It may be the batch of CD's you have. I've had problems in the past with this, switching to a different brand, solved the problem. This may be be the problem as DVD's work well and the odd CD. Try some different ones and see how the go. Did some research on CD/DVD quality last year, and it seems that Verbatim come out as one of the highest scoring products. Have switched to them and have not had a single bad CD/DVD in over 300 disks so far.


Looks for large wooden object :lol:
 
I think you may be right on the brand of CD, I'm using Tesco own brand (they're cheap!) and have had several bad discs in this batch. I'll nip out now and buy some decent ones and see if that makes any difference.

Nero doesn't seem to be working either...
 
Tescos discs are a crock of *****, it pays to get a decent make :thumbs:
 
I nipped out and got 10 Sony CD-Rs, and they seem to work fine. It looks like it was ***** Tesco discs, rather than any problem with the laptop. Thanks for the advice everyone.
 
i would go with "sonic record now", its total idiot proof thats why i use it, lol
 
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