Major DVD problem..

[stew69]

Hello
I was backing up my dvd's using alcohol 120% and everything was going fine until i tried another and it failed at the burning stage...
since then my rom refuses to read any dvd's - films or data disks
it will still read music or data cd's but will not entertain any dvd's
anyone any ideas ??????
HELP !!!!!!!!!

[bandit-600]

have you tried updating the drivers or uninstalling the rom then restarting your system to see if it picks it up as new hardware

[stew69]

yes i have tried both of these solutions but to no avail...

[Monty Burns]

More info needed: Your progs you use to backup, pc specs, os.......

[stew69]

ok..

programs using for back ups.
nero & alcohol 120%
os windows xp
any help appreciated monty

[bandit-600]

might be a bit drastic but it seem like the only way to sort this out is a complete reboot of your system (did you get a recovery disk when you got the system ?) might help to speed up your system a bit as well

[stew69]

yeah its looking like i will have to do that
i haven't formatted before using xp
presumably i'm gonna lose all the stuff i have downloaded
although i might put in another burner to try to save the things i have got
btw my current burner isnt even writing cds now

[Bempo]

I had a similar problem with my DVD burner, but it would only do it to some discs. I fixed the problem by upgrading the firmware on my burner

[spratster]

if you do a reformat , partition your hd then all your dloads needent be affected by format eg c and d drive .. c drive prog etc ,,d drive dloads

then if you wanna save owt before format move from c to d !!!