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(Solved)my dvd writer could not write or burn anything
Samson:
What brand of CD/ DVDs are you using? Some burners can be picky. I only use Maxell/ TDK/ Verbatim etc, some generic types can be rubbish.
Most burning programs have an option to select burning speed, have you tried that? Start trying the slowest first.
jraju:
Hi, samson,
i bought a new cd rw at market . It was all sony cds in which rw are available both for cd and dvd. no brand available on rw in small towns. i think sony has flooded the market on the rw stuff.
i changed the burner speed to 4x, from fastest.
The problem is on cd rw, when i burn, with windows cd wizard, everything is fine up to fianlization. But the burnt file vanishes after cd wizard finishes. In windows xp, you have to first copy files to the cd explorer and then write files to cd . After writing the cd should show the files burnt from the files ready to burn with , when you copy the file for burning. But in my case, the burn process is success , but the files writing to be cd gone and re check on explorer shows nothing.
Could you copy the pxhelp20.sys file here, so that i could copy that to the drivers folder system32, and then try it. I have changed the lowerfilters to this pxhelp in the registry, but there should be some sys file to activate it. I searched for this file in all the folders, but could not find it. If i go to cd , in i386 folder, all the files in windows compressed form.
If you could provide the file, i could try that fix totally.
It is not that i am persisting on using this dvd. I am having Sony optiarc dvd rw ad 7530 ata, and no problem in audio and video. only on burning files. Nero burnt successfully, but on explorer it shows as nothing as burnt and total cd space available.
i have writex cd lens cleaner and i also cleaned the drive.
sfc.exe /scannow goes smoothly in xp , and nothing could be said about the failure.
all windows updates optional , important are upto date.
i also came to know about sony rootkit, and checked for xp cd service, which was not there in services. I have only imapi services in xp, in services, which when i set to automatlic, auto disables itself. It has no dependency services.
imgburn burns, but on verify fails with layout do not match error.any idea how to go about. i tried removing upperfilters and lowerfilters.
Samson:
--- Quote from: jraju on April 09, 2016, 05:45:53 pm ---Could you copy the pxhelp20.sys file here, so that i could copy that to the drivers folder system32, and then try it. I have changed the lowerfilters to this pxhelp in the registry, but there should be some sys file to activate it. I searched for this file in all the folders, but could not find it. If i go to cd , in i386 folder, all the files in windows compressed form.
If you could provide the file, i could try that fix totally.
--- End quote ---
I don't know if that will work J, but here you go. The location was C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers
Perhaps uninstalling/ reinstalling your burning software may replace it?
Here you go anyway.
jraju:
Yes . thanks samson. i will try. Because, if it is a fix, then the file should be there in the respected directory. It is not loaded by burning software. It is sonic supported system file developed by sonic or sonic supported msoft. It is a thinking, that our market is flooded with sony cd rw, which is having 4x maximum speed , and also not supported to windows xp system.
samson, one more question, what is windows cd wizard, is it useful or one can remove that . It first asks you to copy the file to the cd directory and then attempt burn.
so, i suppose, it is copying to some folders in c: and then writes to the disc drive. who has given it? is it microsoft supported program. Because, if it is written, it should be shown in the explorer. it does not show. Then , if it is read by win 7 ultimate, then it is said to be having file type unknown and it is unusable, i mean cd r.
i am trying fixes and hope to fix. More over, i tried the hklm system current controlset, services, cdfs and udfs services. If you see those, things start type is given as 4, which is disabled at any stage, ie totally disabled. I tried to give it 1 to start the services. But still the same problem.
Samson:
J, I'd be suprised if copying that file worked but hey, up to you.
The market is flooded with Sony CDs? ( possibly counterfeits?), I never liked rewritable CDs or DVDs, just plain r, single use, seem more reliable.
I never use Windows burning tools, so can't help I'm afraid. I use Ashampoo http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ashampoo_burning_studio_free.html
Maybe uninstalling and reinstalling the burner would get you the proper drivers and sort out the missing pxhelp20.sys file?
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