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[Peter.Cort]

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yeah i mean you shouldn't have to deal with underachieving drives. buy an asus one and hope it works.

 

[Oreo]

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The most annoying thing is i specifically bought it in a retail store in its retail box with all the crappy software so i knew it wasn't a fake one (I heard a load of reports of people getting fake drives from lots of e-tailers).

I literally am very close to taking the drive out my case and jsut ****ing smashing it into the ground

 

[MindoverMaster]

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I've used an ASUS one in the past. No problems. Never had a Lie-on break on me, neither.

 

[Oreo]

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I've used an ASUS one in the past. No problems. Never had a Lie-on break on me, neither.

Mine vibrated really loud and usually had to resort to pressing that pin in which manually forced the drive out. Atleast it always read DVD's though..

You know i think this sammy drive doesn't like dual layer DVD's. It doesn't even seem to attempt to read them, no noise, no spinning, nothing.

edit:

Woop, dad phoned up PC World in anger and they now have an on the spot replacement for a 24x Lite-On waiting for me tommorow

 

[remixedcat]

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my friggin optical drive won't burn cds/dvds but it reads them fine. wtf? Oh well time to get a blu-ray!

 

[PP Mguire]

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I have had the same POS 20 dollar SATA Lite-On for years. Never really had a problem with it. Needless to say though, for the same reason you're having is the reason why I don't use discs anymore and haven't for a long time. Have you tried changing the cable?

 

[toxicity_27]

Rube Goldberg machines rock.

 

[remixedcat]

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yes and reseating the new one and even using different software and brands of discs and anything I can think of doing..... It's an H-L datastorage branded litescribe drive.

thing is it will burn drag-n-drop windows explorer data dvds sometimes (like 1/4 discs works)

 

[Harper]

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my friggin optical drive won't burn cds/dvds but it reads them fine. wtf? Oh well time to get a blu-ray!

Sounds like your drive is on the way out.

 

[remixedcat]

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yeah gonna get a blu-ray or if it's too expensive just get another dvd-rw drive..... what is a good brand?