When I first purchased my TR5AP, the optical drive worked well with DVDs. Lately, however, it has been giving me difficulties in reading DVD movies and even blank DVD media (4x TDK DVD-R).

When I place the DVD or blank media in the drive I can hear the drive attempting to read a few times before it just stops and does nothing.

When I try to access the drive in Windows Explorer, I get an error field that says, “E:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed becuase of an I/O device error.

All my regular data and music CDs work perfectly and are recognized by the drive immediately.

Sometimes, after placing in one of these regular CDs into the drive, and then putting in a DVD, the drive is able to read the DVD.

Am I alone with this problem? Any suggestions?

seems like a faulty drive

+1

i read a warning in the back of some tdk blank dvd-r’s stating that some medias(including tdk) can fog or damage the lens of the cd-rw/dvd-rw. don’t know how accurate that is.. 

Hi!

Try an up to 2x compatible DVD-RW.  :D

[quote author=“adidas”]Hi!

Try an up to 2x compatible DVD-RW.  :D

I’ve tried 4x Memorex DVD-R’s on my TR3AP3 and they work fine.