My drive can read but cannot burn anymore!

[RosyIvory]

Hello,

I have "ASUS DRW 2014S1T ATA" that's not burning disks anymore. Though I didn't use it to bun CDs for a long time, it reads them very well.

I'm having problems now with my HDD so when I tried to create a "System Repair Disk", it kept popping-up an error screen stating "The write failed because the drive returned error information that could not be recovered from (0xC0AA0301)". I also tried burning regular stuff like images and video files and I ended up with failed burning process.

I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but the problem is still there. I installed a third party CD/ DVD burning program (Nero 7) but I still kept getting error screens.

PS: For what it's worth I recently converted to Win7-32bit.

 

[mauller07]

most likely the writing head has failed, it has a different head for reading and writing which is why its able to read still but not write.

 

[RosyIvory]

Is it repairable or the drive should be replaced?

 

[mauller07]

just needs replacing.

 

[RosyIvory]

What might cause this?

 

[mauller07]

numerous reasons, the burning head tends to die before reading heads because of the higher output power needed to etch a writable disc.

 

[Hawkeye22]

My burner recently has the problem that it can read commercial dvd's, but can't read dvd +/- rw disks, even blank ones. They are cheap enough these days that I opted to buy a new one. Newegg has an asus burner for $19.99 with a labor day promotion code for $3 off. Select the super saver shipping and you'll only pay $17.99 for it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

 

[RosyIvory]

Would frequent power failure cause this even if the DVD drive is not running?

 

[mauller07]

they can just go, from a failing component etc

 

[RosyIvory]

Mmmm.. so it consumed its lifetime 🙁

 

[Hawkeye22]

Which is why I recommended getting a new one. No sense beating a dead horse.