Have you tried not inserting the blank DVD until your DVD burner program
tells you you have to?

"LenaBru" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi
>
> I have a Toshiba A100 laptop with vista home premium installed on it.
>
> I am trying to burn DVD disks on my laptop, and when i insert a disk it
> says i don't have a disk in the drive and i should input one.
>
> I tried several DVD disks, including a rewritable one.
>
> I looked at a similar Toshiba laptop, and it does write DVD disks.
>
> I don't know how long i've had this prob since, i use this option very
> rarely.
>
> Is there a way to fix the DVD drive without replacing it? and keeping
> reinstalling windows as last option ? (I'm not sure reinstalling will
> help)
>
> The drive does read DVD disks that have something on them.
> The drive does burn CD type disks
>
>
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> LenaBru[/color]