Matshita UJ 831Da Gon A Rye

I have a Sony Vaio, Windows XP Pro SP3 and the ever loving Matshita UJ 831Da
CD-R DVD-RW combo drive. Problem started a while back but have been slow
trying to fix it. Useing the CD writing wizard that is OEM installed, I
believe to be writen by Roxio, (I Thought It was a Microsoft tool with XP) I
get a Warning "!" "Writing Error, the disk you have attempted to write may no
longer be usable", most of the time. Once in a while it will work fine. When
Trying to use Click to DVD (a sony oem installed product) to burn a dvd-r or
-rw, I get a Disk type not suported error. It seems to read everything I
throw at it as far as CD's but will not read DVD's. It started having
intermitant problems a year or so ago. I was in need of a Wipe and rebuild
anyway so did a OEM restore (coplete reformat and reinstall) and reinstalled
3rd party software. everything was cool for a while but after installing a HP
C4385 All in one printer the problems began again. Have tryed everything I
can think of and find so I finaly blamed HP for conflicting drivers. They
said no of course, but sure seemed to be alot of Roxio files in the HP folder
and I didn't have the easy creater version.

Ok cut to the chase; Once in a while it will burn CD-R's, more often not,
will not burn DVD-R, RW, Will not read DVD. Have uninstalled all HP stuff and
deleted the files and clean up the disk and registry from any HP stuff I
could easily ID. (I am ckicken to go to far) with only limited improvment in
burning CD-R adding to disks I had alread ben using and 2 out of 10 trying to
burn a new one. No Cahnge in the DVD side.
Is this a "Mit sh*t a" hardware issue or could it still be software or
system? From everything I have read I am leaning to hardware broken. Still
hopeing for software and not ready to appoligize to HP yet. (had way to many
HP conflicts in past. I only have this one out the divorce because my 10 year
old epson (my it RIP) died.)

Anyone??
Thank You!
Dave W

On Dec 1, 7:58*am, mncountryboy
<mncountry...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have a Sony Vaio, Windows XP Pro SP3 and the ever loving Matshita UJ 831Da
> CD-R DVD-RW combo drive. Problem started a while back but have been slow
> trying to fix it. Useing the CD writing wizard that is OEM installed, I
> believe to be writen by Roxio, (I Thought It was a Microsoft tool with XP) I
> get a Warning "!" "Writing Error, the disk you have attempted to write may no
> longer be usable", most of the time. Once in a while it will work fine. When
> Trying to use Click to DVD (a sony oem installed product) to burn a dvd-ror
> -rw, I get a Disk type not suported error. It seems to read everything I
> throw at it as far as CD's but will not read DVD's. It started having
> intermitant problems a year or so ago. *I was in need of a Wipe and rebuild
> anyway so did a OEM restore (coplete reformat and reinstall) and reinstalled
> 3rd party software. everything was cool for a while but after installing a HP
> C4385 All in one printer the problems began again. Have tryed everything I
> can think of and find so I finaly blamed HP for conflicting drivers. They
> said no of course, but sure seemed to be alot of Roxio files in the HP folder
> and I didn't have the easy creater version.
>
> Ok cut to the chase; Once in a while it will burn CD-R's, more often not,
> will not burn DVD-R, RW, Will not read DVD. Have uninstalled all HP stuffand
> deleted the files and clean up the disk and registry from any HP stuff I
> could easily ID. (I am ckicken to go to far) with only limited improvmentin
> burning CD-R adding to disks I had alread ben using and 2 out of 10 trying to
> burn a new one. No Cahnge in the DVD side.
> Is this a "Mit sh*t a" hardware issue or could it still be software or
> system? From everything I have read I am leaning to hardware broken. Still
> hopeing for software and not ready to appoligize to HP yet. (had way to many
> HP conflicts in past. I only have this one out the divorce because my 10 year
> old epson (my it RIP) died.)
>
> Anyone??
> Thank You!
> Dave W

First, several programs can cause conflicts because they can install
the same named DLLS with different options.

Most, if not all, DVD drives tend to use two lasers for the two types
of disks. If you have a problem with the drive reading one type of
disks, then the corresponding laser might be failing or has failed.
You would need to locate a replacement unit.

I am tending to think that may be the case. Is there any way to test that
threory?
--
Dave W


"smlunatick" wrote:

> On Dec 1, 7:58 am, mncountryboy
> <mncountry...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I have a Sony Vaio, Windows XP Pro SP3 and the ever loving Matshita UJ 831Da
> > CD-R DVD-RW combo drive. Problem started a while back but have been slow
> > trying to fix it. Useing the CD writing wizard that is OEM installed, I
> > believe to be writen by Roxio, (I Thought It was a Microsoft tool with XP) I
> > get a Warning "!" "Writing Error, the disk you have attempted to write may no
> > longer be usable", most of the time. Once in a while it will work fine. When
> > Trying to use Click to DVD (a sony oem installed product) to burn a dvd-r or
> > -rw, I get a Disk type not suported error. It seems to read everything I
> > throw at it as far as CD's but will not read DVD's. It started having
> > intermitant problems a year or so ago. I was in need of a Wipe and rebuild
> > anyway so did a OEM restore (coplete reformat and reinstall) and reinstalled
> > 3rd party software. everything was cool for a while but after installing a HP
> > C4385 All in one printer the problems began again. Have tryed everything I
> > can think of and find so I finaly blamed HP for conflicting drivers. They
> > said no of course, but sure seemed to be alot of Roxio files in the HP folder
> > and I didn't have the easy creater version.
> >
> > Ok cut to the chase; Once in a while it will burn CD-R's, more often not,
> > will not burn DVD-R, RW, Will not read DVD. Have uninstalled all HP stuff and
> > deleted the files and clean up the disk and registry from any HP stuff I
> > could easily ID. (I am ckicken to go to far) with only limited improvment in
> > burning CD-R adding to disks I had alread ben using and 2 out of 10 trying to
> > burn a new one. No Cahnge in the DVD side.
> > Is this a "Mit sh*t a" hardware issue or could it still be software or
> > system? From everything I have read I am leaning to hardware broken. Still
> > hopeing for software and not ready to appoligize to HP yet. (had way to many
> > HP conflicts in past. I only have this one out the divorce because my 10 year
> > old epson (my it RIP) died.)
> >
> > Anyone??
> > Thank You!
> > Dave W
>
> First, several programs can cause conflicts because they can install
> the same named DLLS with different options.
>
> Most, if not all, DVD drives tend to use two lasers for the two types
> of disks. If you have a problem with the drive reading one type of
> disks, then the corresponding laser might be failing or has failed.
> You would need to locate a replacement unit.
>