DVD+R locks up system

Upon putting in my DVD+R disk, the one that I'm using to make backups on, it never "loads" and will cause the system to lock up. Explorer locks up and if I try to restart it or end it it just locks up even more. The second I eject the disk, everything comes back up.

What could possibly be on the disk that's causing my system to lock up? The disk is just a regular DVD+R that's been formatted with UDF and has an older copy of all of the things that I wanted to back up.

I have done this before. What I do is I delete everything on the disk, then copy a fresh copy of everything onto the disk. Then I close the session and eject. Simple, no?

Operating system is Vista Home Premium SP1.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
2x 1gig Corsair ram
DVD drive is capable of reading and writing to this type of disk....

 

Have you gone into Event Viewer and looked for errors pertaining to the cdrom? Could be due to a bad block.

Does another DVD+R work OK?

I had this problem once and it was due to the fact the dvd player itself needed cleaning.

 

It sounds like you are using a DVD-RW disc. They do go bad. Sometimes a different DVD drive can read them but I'd say copy what you can from the disc on another computer and then put your backups on a new disc.

 

The disk is a DVD+R. Don't ask me how, I'm confused by disk types and format types for disks on a daily basis. Maybe that's part of the problem... Vista "deleted" my old backup and "wrote" my new one to a disk that didn't allow it. I figured I would have gotten some sort of error message if it was not capable to doing what it said it was doing, though.

Kniht - I have checked another DVD+R disk and it does work, however it was not formatted the same. It was formatted when I started a full system backup using Vista's backup and restore center.

I will check the event viewer.

Thanks for the help so far



EDIT: In event viewer I have many instances of an error relating to this.

"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom0."