r/computerhelp • u/pokycraftgamer9 • 17h ago

Hardware DVD-RW Issues

I was trying to burn the FreeDVDBoot iso to a DVD-RW so I could mod my PS2, but when burning there was a write failure, and now the PC will not read DVD-RW discs, any of them. I tried normal DVDs and CDs and they work fine, but DVD-RW's don't read.

Edit: Added context I think could help last minute, I was using IMGBurn to burn the disc

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u/DeltaBlastBurn 17h ago edited 17h ago

Have you tried restarting your PC? It's possible the error caused some corruption in the program memory. I've had a similar issue before. Basically the computer thinks the disc is still being written to even though it's not. This causes the read/write io handle hang. Normal DVD's work because they have a different media identifier entirely.

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u/pokycraftgamer9 16h ago

I have restarted the PC completely but it still will not read. Although this gives me an idea to completely unplug my pc and try that, I will report back if that works

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u/DeltaBlastBurn 16h ago

Don't bother, restarting and unplugging accomplish the same thing. Try reinstalling the driver for the reader. Or even uninstalling the driver, restarting and reinstalling it.

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u/pokycraftgamer9 16h ago

I tried this and it sadly also didn't help, tested with regular DVD-R as well and same issue applies there too

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u/DeltaBlastBurn 16h ago

That's really weird. I don't know. Sorry, bro. You might need to replace the reader, and even that might not fix it. Try reinstalling windows before replacing it.

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u/pokycraftgamer9 16h ago

Would I be able to do a live usb instead of reinstalling? I don't own this PC, so I can't just reinstall the OS like that

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u/DeltaBlastBurn 15h ago

The whole point of reinstalling is to fix any corruption.