Drives start to go out about 2 years and this is well beyond that. Since laptop drives are sometimes a pain to replace I use an USB DVDRW drive. Too many out there to list anything specific. And yes, folk do ask how to fix a DVDRW drive. Only the new tech tries.
Bob
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad, running Win7 home premium 64-bit SP1. The optical drive is an HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT33N.
The machine is about 3-4 years old over a year ago I started having trouble when trying to burn a DVD. Using Sony's DVD Architect Pro 6.0 to burn. I get an error msg that says the drive is busy processing a command.
The details of the error message:
'SFMMCX'-(17)
''-(0)
-'HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT33N LT22'-(1)
Module c:\src\sonic3\main\cddrvs\sfcd\sfmmcx.cpp Line 2187
The drive is not ready.
The drive is not ready, an operation is in progress.
Status: 00020202
Command: 2a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
Sense: 02 04 07
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
I have been using other computers to burn with, but today I tried using this one again, as it is my newest burner. It allowed me to burn one DVD successfully, but when I tried a second one, the old error came back to haunt me.
I don't have any Sonic software installed on this machine, that I know of. I examined my list of software in Control Panel > Uninstall or change a program.
I also uninstalled the driver for the optical drive and let the operating system re-install it.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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