Okay I am basically posting this to see if my conclusion was right. Here is the situation.
Got a Dell Insprion 1545 Laptop I am working on. Now the reason I am posting this here is cause it revolves directly around the DVD Multi Drive and not the laptop itself. So please dont report this saying it belongs some where else. It doesnt, this is a specific hardware issue.
Anyways. The laptop is about a year old. It would work just fine burning all types of media from CD's to DVD's and everything inbetween. About 2 months ago the machine stopped burning CD's but will still burn DVD's just fine. Looking at Windows Explorer you see it says DVD RW Drive and nothing more. It lost the functionality to burn CD's out of the blue? I got the unit and looked at it. Removed the drive from Windows via Device Manager, restarted the machine. Nothing. Removed the Upper and Lower Limits, nothing. I didnt have time to go further with it so they said it was fine that they would just take it back as is.
Now fast forward to this week. They got a nasty infection, Vista Security 2012, which I removed from the machine with ease. But that nagging drive issue still haunted me. So I resorted to some old school tactics. I backed up all the personal data on my external drive, restored the unit to factory settings. No luck. Still wont burn Cd's, but will still burn DVD's. Even after a factory reset. So I went further. Upgraded Windows to Windows 7 Home Premium from Windows Vista Home Premium. Easy. Made sure the upper and lower limits were still gone. Not a problem. Even found a firmware flash for the drive to make it Windows 7 compatible. Wicked! All for nothing.
So a restore and upgrade later the drive still wont work with CD's. My guess is the drive is damaged, maybe from overuse(?), and needs to be replaced in order to burn Cd's again. What say you hardware guru's? Am I near correct on this conclusion?
Got a Dell Insprion 1545 Laptop I am working on. Now the reason I am posting this here is cause it revolves directly around the DVD Multi Drive and not the laptop itself. So please dont report this saying it belongs some where else. It doesnt, this is a specific hardware issue.
Anyways. The laptop is about a year old. It would work just fine burning all types of media from CD's to DVD's and everything inbetween. About 2 months ago the machine stopped burning CD's but will still burn DVD's just fine. Looking at Windows Explorer you see it says DVD RW Drive and nothing more. It lost the functionality to burn CD's out of the blue? I got the unit and looked at it. Removed the drive from Windows via Device Manager, restarted the machine. Nothing. Removed the Upper and Lower Limits, nothing. I didnt have time to go further with it so they said it was fine that they would just take it back as is.
Now fast forward to this week. They got a nasty infection, Vista Security 2012, which I removed from the machine with ease. But that nagging drive issue still haunted me. So I resorted to some old school tactics. I backed up all the personal data on my external drive, restored the unit to factory settings. No luck. Still wont burn Cd's, but will still burn DVD's. Even after a factory reset. So I went further. Upgraded Windows to Windows 7 Home Premium from Windows Vista Home Premium. Easy. Made sure the upper and lower limits were still gone. Not a problem. Even found a firmware flash for the drive to make it Windows 7 compatible. Wicked! All for nothing.
So a restore and upgrade later the drive still wont work with CD's. My guess is the drive is damaged, maybe from overuse(?), and needs to be replaced in order to burn Cd's again. What say you hardware guru's? Am I near correct on this conclusion?