CD-RW written to, but yet not

The drive is the LTR-52246s. Just recently I noticed some strange
behaviour while writing a cd-rw. Nero wrote the data, did the lead
in/lead out and went on to the verify process. Only it never started
properly. I could hear a tic-tic sound coming from the drive,
as if it was retrying a read or seek.

I wasn't able to get the drive out of this state until I rebooted the
system. Upon examination of the disk, I can see the burned area,
so data is definitely written. But any attempt to read the disk,
using the same drive or another, says it is a blank cdrw.

Do you think, most likely, that the drive is bad at this point ?

dave xnet wrote:
> The drive is the LTR-52246s. Just recently I noticed some strange
> behaviour while writing a cd-rw. Nero wrote the data, did the lead
> in/lead out and went on to the verify process. Only it never started
> properly. I could hear a tic-tic sound coming from the drive,
> as if it was retrying a read or seek.
>
> I wasn't able to get the drive out of this state until I rebooted the
> system. Upon examination of the disk, I can see the burned area,
> so data is definitely written. But any attempt to read the disk,
> using the same drive or another, says it is a blank cdrw.
>
> Do you think, most likely, that the drive is bad at this point ?
>

I think most people would either erase and try again or try using
another cd, maybe even try cd-r. That would help determine if the drive
was problematic. Alternatively you can wait for the responses from those
more confident in their long range diagnostic talents.
Dave Cohen

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:50:18 -0700, smh <nospam@nospam.org> wrote:

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>
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>'
>
>dave xnet wrote:
>>
>> The drive is the LTR-52246s. Just recently I noticed some strange
>> behaviour while writing a cd-rw. Nero wrote the data, did the lead
>> in/lead out and went on to the verify process. Only it never started
>> properly. I could hear a tic-tic sound coming from the drive,
>> as if it was retrying a read or seek.
>>
>> I wasn't able to get the drive out of this state until I rebooted the
>> system. Upon examination of the disk, I can see the burned area,
>> so data is definitely written. But any attempt to read the disk,
>> using the same drive or another, says it is a blank cdrw.
>>
>> Do you think, most likely, that the drive is bad at this point ?
>
>First I will clean the laser. Then burn to another CD-RW and see if the
>problem is repeated. If the problem repeats, then burn to CD-R. If the
>problem still repeats, most likely the drive reached its end.

Thanks for the responses.

The problematic Compusa-branded cdrw's work fine in the DVD writer in
the same box, as well as a Sony CRX-195 in another PC.

I'll try as you suggested; on the next opportunity I'll open it up
for a clean and inspection.

Cheers,
Dave