DVD-R CD/RW reports 0 bytes in all CDs.

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[DeX]Skraag

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Hi

I'm new here, but I was wondering if someone could help me with this problem. I recently bought a Lite-On LTC-48161H unit. It was working fine until I decided to burn my first CD with Easy CD Creator. The burn process began and after a few seconds I got an error. I thought I had set the burning speed too high so I switched to another blank CD and it refused to work. Afterwards, every single CD I put in that unit is reported as being 0 bytes!

I already upgraded the firmware of my drive, uninstalled Easy CD Creator and tried Nero 5 and 6. The problem persists (Nero 5 won't detect the unit and Nero 6 won't start at all). The device is reported to be fine from the Hardware Manager. I've deleted the unit using this manager so that WinXP re-detects it upon restarting and it still won't help.

Any ideas/suggestions are kindly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
 
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Thanks poacher. I did the things on that list (except for the DMA activation since this unit does not burn DVDs) but it still refuses to read anything. Any other suggestions?
 
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scarecrow

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Doesn't matter if you burn DVD's or not- DMA should be activated. "uninstalling" EZCD Cremator is much easier said than done- it leaves behind tons of trash. Install any of the two Nero versions, and then use the Nero registry checker to fix existing problems:
ftp://ftp6.nero.com/RegistryChecker.exe
If this does not fix things, you have to do some manual Roxio cleaning.
 
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[DeX]Skraag

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scarecrow said:
Doesn't matter if you burn DVD's or not- DMA should be activated. "uninstalling" EZCD Cremator is much easier said than done- it leaves behind tons of trash. Install any of the two Nero versions, and then use the Nero registry checker to fix existing problems:
ftp://ftp6.nero.com/RegistryChecker.exe
If this does not fix things, you have to do some manual Roxio cleaning.
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Thanks for your reply. I still haven't tested all this, but how would I do the manual Roxio cleaning?
 
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scarecrow

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[DeX]Skraag said:
Thanks for your reply. I still haven't tested all this, but how would I do the manual Roxio cleaning?
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1. deactivate the Roxio drivers
2. Remove some registry enties.
To make your task easier, I will first ask if you have an ASPI manager installed (Cremator should likely install an ASPI manager without asking).
Go to www.filemirrors.com and download three utilities:
- ForceASPI 1.7
- ForceASPI 1.8
- Aspichk.exe
First run aspicck.exe and push the output here (it will tell you if you have any sort of ASPI layer present, and if it's functional). But you'd better do that AFTER applying my previous hints.
 
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[DeX]Skraag

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scarecrow said:
1. deactivate the Roxio drivers
2. Remove some registry enties.
To make your task easier, I will first ask if you have an ASPI manager installed (Cremator should likely install an ASPI manager without asking).
Go to www.filemirrors.com and download three utilities:
- ForceASPI 1.7
- ForceASPI 1.8
- Aspichk.exe
First run aspicck.exe and push the output here (it will tell you if you have any sort of ASPI layer present, and if it's functional). But you'd better do that AFTER applying my previous hints.
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Well, I added DMA support (switched to PIO mode, rebooted, switched back to DMA mode and rebooted). I installed Nero 5 and ran RegistryChecker. It told me there were some errors and corrected them. Then I downloaded Roxiozap to kill whatever may have been left of EZ CD Creator. I had already installed an aspi layer with ForceASPI. Aspichk says "ASPI is properly installed and fully operational". The drivers are ASPI32.SYS, WOWPOST.EXE, WINASPI.DLL and WNASPI32.DLL (all version 4.6).

The unit no longer reports 0-byte CDs, it just keeps telling me to insert a CD. Thank you for you time and attention, any other suggestions I might try?
 
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scarecrow

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I think roxiozap is outdated- it works for Cremator 5 only...
The Roxio drivers are still present in the /windows/system32/drivers folder, instead of telling you which ones to delete you might try using Feurio!
www.feurio.com
The program is absolutely harmless, uncrippled shareware/freeware- no limitations, just naggers... (does not install any driver, use just your supposedly valid ASPI manager to communicate with devices), and has a "system diagnosis" menu which will detect the active Roxio drivers, and offer you an option to deactivate them. Deactivate any present Roxio driver from there, reboot, run the nero checker again, reboot again if it reports any sorts of problems, and see if it gets any better now... if not, we will use the long and painful way.
Mind you that after disabling the Roxio drivers your windows media player will be unable to burn, but I guess this is the least that should concern you right now...
Oh, by the way I hope that your burner(s) are hooked on a non-RAID onboard controller, and not to a PCI IDE controller, else we will have to reconsider...
 
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[DeX]Skraag

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scarecrow said:
I think roxiozap is outdated- it works for Cremator 5 only...
The Roxio drivers are still present in the /windows/system32/drivers folder, instead of telling you which ones to delete you might try using Feurio!
www.feurio.com
The program is absolutely harmless, uncrippled shareware/freeware- no limitations, just naggers... (does not install any driver, use just your supposedly valid ASPI manager to communicate with devices), and has a "system diagnosis" menu which will detect the active Roxio drivers, and offer you an option to deactivate them. Deactivate any present Roxio driver from there, reboot, run the nero checker again, reboot again if it reports any sorts of problems, and see if it gets any better now... if not, we will use the long and painful way.
Mind you that after disabling the Roxio drivers your windows media player will be unable to burn, but I guess this is the least that should concern you right now...
Oh, by the way I hope that your burner(s) are hooked on a non-RAID onboard controller, and not to a PCI IDE controller, else we will have to reconsider...
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Downloaded Feurio, ran diagnosis tool. I couldn't find anything related to Roxio, but there was an Imapi driver running. I deactivated it, rebooted, ran RegistryChecker, detected errors, rebooted. The unit still won't work :D.

How can I tell if my controller is RAID?
 
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[DeX]Skraag

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scarecrow said:
Just report you mainboard model...
BTW did Feurio see any burners being there and waiting for a blank?
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(Thanks for you reply on the other thread).

You see, the problem is this. I bought this computer about 2 weeks ago. I can't open it or I'll void the guarantee, so I have no idea what model is my motherboard.

Feurio did detect a burner the first time I ran it. After I de-activated Imapi and rebooted it didn't detect a burner. I manually selected it from a list and used the default drivers.
 
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scarecrow

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Well... if it's a brand new computer I can suggest using the ever famous fdisk/mbr solution, and reinstailling Windows from scratch, but if you possibly could find out some more info this cound be avoided... never ever touching EZCD Cremator again would help a lot too, although Nero is hardly the best alternative (IMHO). I would use RecordNow, or Burnatonce instead (the latter has problems with non-Pioneer DVD burners, but since you don't have a DVD burner it is simply an exhellent CD mastering+ burning program, costing 0 dollars).
 
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[DeX]Skraag

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Yesterday a friend lent me an external USB CD burner. I was able to burn a CD with it using burnatonce. Does this mean that it is indeed a hardware problem since no new drivers were installed (besides the USB 2.0 drivers)?

Thank you all for your patience and replies. :D
 
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