Computer (not responding)

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when I right-click on My Computer to format a CD, the blue circle will appear telling me it's thinking or working on it (Vista's hourglass). That'll take a while but when I try to click elsewhere on the window, the whole scree will freeze and the top will read "My Computer (not responding)".

Norton's not picking up any viruses and Spybot S&D isn't picking up on any adware.

I don't know what to do. I want to burn a few CDs but it's not letting me.

Help me. You're my only hope.

Is this laptop/PC. What are the specifications? What model is it? How old is it?

What was the last thing you did, when it was working fine?

It's about a year old. Vista Home Premium SP2. 8 GB RAM, all that.

Didn't do anything to it to make it start behaving this way. Didn't tweak it in any special way. Didn't tweak it at all in fact. Just up and decided it decided it didn't want to format and write to CDs anymore like some disgruntled postman.

Here's some more symptoms:

The Windows load screen, it's unusually long, like a whole minute.

I'll stick a DVD in and it'll play just fine but when I tell it to write files to the disk, it won't. It'll think about it for like 10 minutes and spit back out the sick and tell me to insert a compatible one. I go to right-click on the drive and the blue orbital appears and I get impatient and click someplace else on the screen and the whole screen goes pale and the top reads "My Computer (not responding)"

I don't know what to do short of tossing the friggin thing out the window. I need to write these files to CD and send them out.

sounds like a PEBKAC Error digger

That may be the case with PEBKAC... The only thing I can think of is are you trying to use Windows' own software to write to a disc? Would this be a DVD or any sort? Usually it's better to use proper DVD writing software or CD

[language removed by lau].

Why would it work for me a hundred times and suddenly stop working.

Just because you have Aspergers doesn't mean you have to be rude.

tech support forums I cant get them to even talk to me and all I get here is you thinking it's ME.

I right-click the file and select send-to (the cd drive)

nothing

I drag the file to the cd drive

nothing

I right-click the drive to format the disk, it stalls explorer.

GET IT?

I had this issue myself with Vista, I just said [language removed by lau] and got the free version of nero...

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I actually just did, the fact is that vista is inherently bad at doing disc burning by default. The only way to do it reliably is to use burning software. The only other suggestion I have is to just let it sit and burn while it does it, odds are your computer is going wonky due to something like memory usage or CPU usage, so check your background processes, however I honestly think it's just down to something got screwed up in vista itself, and thereby is OS end, and something that MS would have to fix.

digger1... in order to test out the drive, try running something other than Vista.

All in all, it does sound very much as if your drive may be failed/failing. That happens.

why bite the hand that feeds you?

That actually is another possibility as well, I didn't think of that...

because I shouldn't have to. I've been working with this for a while without a problem.

thread closed afaic

Shouldn't have to... what? Test hardware?

So everything that works once or twice is guaranteed to work forever?

I guess that implies that you never wish to receive any help from anyone ever again?

PS. One thing that I didn't quite (bother to) figure out from your descriptions was whether the problem is specifically the CD head failing. In a dual drive, there are separate heads for the DVD and CD functionality. I certain had a dual drive where the CD head failed (or rather, became unreliable), although it would happily play DVDs. The reverse can also happen.

no, I've burned dozens of cds in this drive. Well, not that many. As many as the average, everyday user, I guess. And I haven't done last night that I haven't done all those other times. And you all are telling me it's my fault, it's something I'm doing, try other software, try a different os, try this, try that.

it's something systemic. That, I'm certain. Look what google comes up with when I search *in quotes*, "can't send files to cd drive"

long link

Yeah, when people tell you to google something...

It is better to NOT use the default software that comes with Windows. It's only good to a point. Much like Internet Explorer, it will break and fail.

Not sure what the original language content was and who it was aimed for... But I would like to be seen as trying to help