the best Portable/External DVD Writer ?

[majithia23]

howdy guys ...

well , the inbuilt DVD burner on my laptop is troubling quite a lot .

fails to pick up any compact media , blank or written . pirate or original .

if it happens to pick a blank CD ,

the burning will go through and it reports " Completed Successfully . "

but , if you pop in the same CD again , it again fails to read . " please insert a CD in the drive G : " , keeps displaying this message . duh:

and sometimes it reports CD burned ,

but after ejecting the CD , its still blank ..!!

i have run the Lens cleaner discs , but that just worked a few times and only in the beginning and now even the lens cleaner fails to be recognized .!

will any kind of troubleshooting help restore the functionality ?

on the other hand ,

i am thinking of getting an external DVD writer . a portable one .

can you guys recommend any brands or makes ? a good one ...

any which you have used and has served you reliably well over a period of time .

i especially ask , coz some one recommended me an HP as being quite good ,

which i highly doubt and dont trust , coz this laptop is HP and its all crap ...

so , wat you say ....

[ck_kent]

Hi majithia23,

From my personal point of view and experience, most drives are fine when and if they still work. I have tried Asus, LiteOn, Pioneer and they lasted at least 4 yrs. depending on frequency of usage. Although, I've also seen the same brand reported to have only lasted in less than a year :dunno: . I have also read that Plextor drives are quite good. But, I believe there are lemons in every brand. :)

[Atasas]

pain in the ar$e them internal ones, if you'd ask me. Most of them work as new, matter of making sure to get right one as a replacement , but somehow they do fail often. External ones?- well matter of being sure, that they are compatible too (IE USB 1.1 backward incomparability sometimes is an issue) simply hard to advise , just one of them try it, if works- good! if not pain in the back side. Personally I prefer to use Desktop for all burning purposes as those rarely if ever fail, never mind the age of them, they are just better!

[majithia23]

Hi majithia23,

From my personal point of view and experience, most drives are fine when and if they still work. I have tried Asus, LiteOn, Pioneer and they lasted at least 4 yrs. depending on frequency of usage. Although, I've also seen the same brand reported to have only lasted in less than a year :dunno: . I have also read that Plextor drives are quite good. But, I believe there are lemons in every brand. :)

hey ck ...

yeah thats right as to what you say .

things esp electronics can have no guarantee as to how well or long will they perform .

but still there are certain brands or makes which do have a unanimous appeal among majority of users , as to be performing reasonably well . !

thanks for your input ,

lets see , what other users say ....

pain in the ar$e them internal ones, if you'd ask me. Most of them work as new, matter of making sure to get right one as a replacement , but somehow they do fail often. External ones?- well matter of being sure, that they are compatible too (IE USB 1.1 backward incomparability sometimes is an issue) simply hard to advise , just one of them try it, if works- good! if not pain in the back side. Personally I prefer to use Desktop for all burning purposes as those rarely if ever fail, never mind the age of them, they are just better!

hey Atasas,

yeah thats right . the desktop ones are pretty good . i too have a Sony DVD writer on my desktop which is approx 7-8 years old , and ( touchwood: ) ,

it hasnt failed me even once . no dead discs and hardly ever read errors .!

as for this inbuilt HP dvd writer , i fail to understand what its problem is .

it fails to read the disc which it itself has burned ...!

duh:

so i want an external one , which i could use ......

[DKT27]

HP has a page for the problem

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01897812

Source:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-CD-DVD/Read-this-for-CD-DVD-Drive-with-burning-missing-drives-not/td-p/134535

[majithia23]

thanks for the link D.

but i know , its not some thing related to some settings or in the software side .

the hard ware itself is crippled , of bad quality .

such type of help pages rarely sort out such type of errors .

they are just an eyewash, a bogus means by these companies to divert the number of complaints they want to attend personally, by giving the user to play about with some thing .

at the end of which he/she is convinced that its something wrong with his Windows or he might have done something wrong , that is causing the error .

not realizing that it is the shitty components used by the manufacturer that are to be actually blamed .. !

[DKT27]

I know. :)

Well, as for HP drive, it's the only drive so far that has worked more than 1 year for me. I've tried Samsung and some other brand I don't remember. I've seen Sony and LG drives too, but LG had this some sort of problem that didn't snip or read any drives and throw them out. My engineer did a lot of searching and said that HP is the only drive that's proper when I bought it. I had send this one and got a refurbished one, but hasn't caused any problems. Yes I know I know, it's HP, they make worst products, but this is the only CD/RW that works fine on my side.

Having said, I have no idea whatsoever when it comes to external drives, laptop drives and nor I know what's good these days (mine was bought 2-3 years ago).

[majithia23]

hmmm...

as i said in my first post , this guy also recommended me an hp like you do .

and as for me, on my desktop i have a Sony drive thats working trouble free for the last 7-8 years .

and there arent many external options in Sony. the one external sony i saw was quite expensive .

and there are many other options available in quite affordable price as compared to the sony model .

but then i have no idea to their working ....

well lets see , if any other user has some experience in them

[payday]

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Good luck! :)