nero won't burn dvd

Dajavu · External Since: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 2

Please help...WinME, LiteOn dual layer DVD writer, Nero 6...all have worked
previously just fine, but now dvd writer is not available to burn with in
Nero. Using Nero's Infotool, it says "device is locked by an unknown
application", or "device is being used by another application". No other
applications running that I can find that have to do with the drive.

Have been struggling 2 days nown, delving into ASPI drivers, uninstalling
recent Creative software including Disk Detector (yuk), even tried a System
Restore back about 3 weeks, all no luck. Pulling what little hair I have left
out here... Device manager says it's working fine, and the best driver
available is already installed... It's either over my head or so completely
simple I've missed it, hopefully someone can help, as I'm running out of disk
space and just want to burn a bunch of digital photos to archive and free up
some space!

Dajavu · External Since: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 2

Thanks anyway, but I happened to scan through the loaded drivers listed in
Nero's Infotool (Find System Info) drivers tab, and saw a couple for InCD
from a previous full install of Nero Suite. There was even a text log file
there, which listed several errors in regards to drive in use, and can't
write to drive as info is still being written to it, etc... Removed all
traces of InCD and all's well and burning again. Maybe this will help someone
else with a similar problem in the future....

"Dajavu" wrote:

> Please help...WinME, LiteOn dual layer DVD writer, Nero 6...all have worked
> previously just fine, but now dvd writer is not available to burn with in
> Nero. Using Nero's Infotool, it says "device is locked by an unknown
> application", or "device is being used by another application". No other
> applications running that I can find that have to do with the drive.
>
> Have been struggling 2 days nown, delving into ASPI drivers, uninstalling
> recent Creative software including Disk Detector (yuk), even tried a System
> Restore back about 3 weeks, all no luck. Pulling what little hair I have left
> out here... Device manager says it's working fine, and the best driver
> available is already installed... It's either over my head or so completely
> simple I've missed it, hopefully someone can help, as I'm running out of disk
> space and just want to burn a bunch of digital photos to archive and free up
> some space!
>
>

annaem_33 · Joined: May 04, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi! got the same problem. Nero won't burn. It says that DVD is locked by unknown application. I've checked infotool and see under the driver's tab InCD's, but i couldn't see a log file.. you said that the traces have to be removed..but i don't know how to do it.. can you please help me with this? i badly need to burn DVD's beause I have files to remove from my local drives.

thanks for the post anyway... Smile