Please Help: Ext Enclosure Won't Burn DVDs. Am Lost!

Hello,

I recently purchased an HP DVD drive (dvd1050) and connected it to my laptop (HP dv6000 Pavilion) through a USB cable using an external box (5.25 USB 2.0 external enclosure, the dealer said I can mount an internal HD Drive also on the same box!)

I read the threads here, but being a newbie, there are a lot of terms I don't understand, so if you would please help.

The Drive in the Box can read all drives but will not burn any CD/DVD (the max I got is 3% and then nothing happens), though I did notice that it will burn smaller files (<1mb) without any problems and when I tried to burn about 700mb of data on DVD, it ejected with errors at 80%; howsoever whenever I put large amount of data it won't burn.

The disc can be erased as well without any problem.

On a website I see the specifications of the drive I got, it said interface FireWire; does that mean it won't work at all through a USB. No additional drivers were provided with the box, I use WinVista.

I presume I am using a USB2.0 on my laptop and connecting it to the box, so what are the possible solutions.

And also the DVD writer worked fine when I connected it to a desktop as an internal drive and even on that desktop it did not work through the USB.

Sorry for the detailed question, please help, thanks.

HI,

Just bought a new LG GH22 LS40 dvd writer and placed it inside a SATA enclosure. I'm having the same problems. Reads perfectly well, but burning process only gets to 1% and then NERO says "device not available" I think our problems might be related.

Anyone please help. Thanks

hi sbaw2x

Yes, I was having the similar problem, it would say that the device is not available. I returned it and the retailer fixed the enclosure, though I do not know how and what he did.

Not a lot of help on this forum, sadly.

asifhameed,

did yourexternal drive work afterwards? were you able to burn large data on dvds after it was fixed by the retailer?

Yes it did work. Burned large amounts of data. I think there must be some error with the chip set.

I had a prob with my old burner and then I bought a new gh22 and it worked fine for 1 month and now my computer won't even recognize it.In device manager it says windows cannot load driver error code 39.
I tried to roll back the driver and install a new driver but still wont work.
I can't even install the driver from the cd because My Computer won't even recognize the dvd drive.Very frustrating .
Any help would gladly be appreciated.Its a fairly new desktop running vista.