<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello from newbieland! I'm running FC8. Everything has been working fine until I tried to make a backup DVD this morning. I inserted the blank, the nautilus Disc burning interface popped up...it said "Choose disc type"...I chose "Make DVD." When I click "write to disc" and subsequently click on "Write," I get the following error message: Error writing to disc There was an error writing to the disc: The recorder could not be accessed. I also noticed K3B also does not find a drive. The drive itself works fine in windows. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this one. Googling resulted in very sketchy information. Thie is a acer aspire 3680 notebook. I have created DVD's with it quite a few times in the past, but haven't used it much recently. I have no idea what caused this change. Help! Please! Gary </body> </html>