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Blank DVD+R Not Showing Up, Possibly Crashing
Hey there. This problem has been bugging me for quite some time now...
I recently bought blank DVD+R discs so I could burn an ISO for a school project. At first, I THOUGHT they would work right away. Opened my optical drive, put the disk in and closed it. The instant it closed I got the dreaded "Your PC has encountered a problem" screen (blue screen of death). It showed for a few seconds, then my monitor showed some funky colours, and it turned off. I turned my PC back on (note that the disk is still inside) and it logged in just fine. I looked in "This PC" and both of my optical drives showed up........ empty. I double clicked the one the disc was in, but it said "please insert a disc into this drive". I have ABSOLUTELY no idea why this would happen! My hardware is below; so far I have tried:
- Shutting down, turning on.
- Restart.
- Disabling both drives.
- Trying a different disc.
- Uninstalling drives.
- Swapping SATA cables.
- A registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0 (Controller0 was a creation Microsoft recommended)
- Enabling "Shell Hardware Detection" in Services
I am about to give up with this. PLEASE help me out! Here is my hardware:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz
- 8GB RAM
- Optical Drives (I have 2): ASUS DVD-E616A3T ATA
Thanks in advance for any help :)
EDIT: the discs are Verbatim DVD+R (NOT DVD-R)