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How can I check my CD/DVD drive?
I spent several hours troubleshooting why I cannot burn a DVD without errors. I suspected the software (Pinnacle Studio 20) and made several changes including changing menus and burning w/o menus. Also tried burning the image file with other software (Nero). Tried using other writeable media also with no joy. Nothing worked. Then I decided to burn the image with an external burner, and it worked. Burned other images that wouldn't burn with my internal burner and they all played fine.
Device Manager claims that the burner is working properly.
I know that burners are fairly cheap and I'm considering replacing mine with a BluRay Read/write burner, but I'm concerned that after replacing the drive there may be some other problem not with the burner itself.
Is there freeware/trialware or some other recommended way to check to see if my existing burner is healthy?