Funky CD Burner

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Funky CD Burner

February 23, 2008, 08:10:30 PM

I bought this Lacie CD burner some years ago and it came with Roxio software. At first, it did a beautiful job burning music CDs that played in the car radio. After using it for awhile, it seemed like something evil got into it or the software, and then it would not work right. I reloaded it several times and several times it would revert back to its initial behavior. But after one performance, it would balk at using a RW disk and then it balked at CD-R disks. Then it would not burn; play or work right at all. Now, it just doesnt respond at all. The computer recognizes the drive but putting a disk in it---it just does nothing. I feel like some kind of corruption has occurred? I now bought Nero and a Sony drive both of which perform---but I am still baffled by this Lacie (do not want to toss it yet). I thought Nero burned music CDs for car radio use, etc.. ???? What's the point of buying internet music if you can not record it for use in personal devices other than the computer itself? Anyone with an answer to these problems?

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Reply #1 – February 23, 2008, 09:09:48 PM

I've got a stack of burners that don't work right. The problem is always the lasers. they tend to get weaker as they age and don't track as good as they used to. Every once and a while, you can find one that has an adjustment on them. like a playstation 2 (I think), has an adjustable laser in it.
Most don't, because there not expected to last more than a couple years. Much like everything else in the computer world.

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Reply #2 – February 24, 2008, 12:23:16 AM

For what it's worth, you could easily buy a new CD/DVD drive and put that in the same LaCie case. Should be about $25-40 somewhere.

I have the same CD burner, never had an issue with it, but then again I don't use it much as it's hooked to my spare computer. However, I did recently find an issue with my LaCie backup drive...turns out the Firwire bridge might be on its way out. LaCie designs are pretty sweet but sometimes I'm not so sure about what's inside...

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Reply #3 – February 24, 2008, 08:05:13 PM

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For what it's worth, you could easily buy a new CD/DVD drive and put that in the same LaCie case. Should be about $25-40 somewhere.

Thats what I would do.
Its really about the PNP case and software that you use. not the actual drive inside of it.
Is the that case usb, firewire or both?

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Reply #4 – February 24, 2008, 10:10:33 PM

I thought of something, too, after I posted...

Have you tried the CD burner (and its software) on a different computer yet?

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Reply #5 – February 25, 2008, 08:28:04 PM

I'll have to see if my brother in law will let me put this burner on his PC. I dont want to out the Roxio on it. I assume the burner will still play, if it works.