PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Writable CD Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting writable CD problems is challenging. There are so many things that can go wrong, and so many variables you can change to try to fix the problem, that it may seem the only choice is to strip everything down to bare metal and start over. Usually such extreme measures are not called for, however. In the course of working with dozens of CD writers on many different systems, we’ve encountered an amazing variety of problems. The following sections describe how to cure those problems. If you’re having a problem with your CD writer, chances are one of these fixes will cure it.