CD burner woes

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:29, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> I used to be able to burn CD's on this laptop, now I can't... 
> 1) I can read CD's just fine.

    I had one like that, and it was the laser that was going.  They 
often "degrade" rather than failing outright.  In such cases, the laser 
can produce enough power to read but not to write.

    If that is the case, you might use a microscope to look for very 
light writing on the beginning track of the CD that failed to write 
properly.

Jim Kuzdrall