Has anyone solved the "Error Code 0x80020022"

Try this:

• Go To System Preferences
• Click "CDs & DVDs'
• In 'When you insert a blank DVD' change to 'Open Finder'

I hope this works.

Yes, I've gotten this message and read all the same advice everyone gives on all the forums. Here's what I've found that works:

If you've been downloading a lot of material from the internet for any length of time and you get this message, you have to assume that the system software that "sees" your hard drive has become corrupted in some way. No, your drive does not need to be replaced. In my case, it happened on a drive that had been recently replaced, so I knew that advice wasn't right.

1. Instead of simply repairing disk permissions on your HD, do it on all your drives you use as storage as well.

2. Now take it one step further and perform Disk Warrior on all your drives to repair its directory, most especially your main HD. You'll need the Disk Warrior bootup disk for this. And also do it on all your other drives, especially the ones where you store downloaded material from the internet.

After I did all this, the message went away and I could burn with my MacBookPro superdrive again. I've had to do this after long periods of downloading material from the internet, so I am assuming it's some sort of virus affecting the system's ability to use the superdrive that causes the disconnect referred to in the error message. You may have to periodically repeat this process if you use the internet a lot and suspect that it is caused by some sort of virus you're picking up in the downloading process.

I just finished doing this process on all my drives and am burning a disk right now as proof that it works. But it's not something you might think would be the source of the problem. Right before doing this process, I was losing disks every time I tried to burn.

Michael,

Understood.

Now, have you actually tried it? Done a Disk Warrior on your HD and other drives, as well as Disk Utility repairing permissions on all disks, rebooted, and then tried to burn a disk at the lowest possible speed? I get that you've done other things, but have you actually tried this?

Good luck...

jcarruth

Michael,

My hard drive is a Samsung SSD 840 Series Media, and before I performed the procedure I described above, I got the 0x80020022 error. Afterwards, no error, and I burned 5 DVDs in a row. All I can do is point to the results.

I understand you've done the research, and I respect that. Perhaps it would work for you, perhaps it wouldn't. I wouldn't want you to spend the money on something that doesn't work for you either, so perhaps your instincts are correct in not wanting to purchase Disk Warrior, or any other type of disc-based solution.

I understand that Apple has done nothing to address this error, even though they've known about it, and users have suffered with it for a number of years now. Before I got the superdrive to burn, I had to mount the drive I was burning from on an older iBook and burn a disc from there. Clunky as heck, but at least I had something that worked to fall back on. So, I sympathize with the no-solution frustration.

I hope I have contributed something to the conversation, even if I couldn't help you out more directly. Let us know if you solve it, and post the solution here.

Jim

Michael,

An update on the ongoing superdrive error:

At the time I responded to your post, I was burning DVD+Rs because my superdrive didn't like -Rs very much and would error out on them. Yesterday, to test my theory on Disk Warrior, I bought some DVD-Rs and burned about 3 in a row successfully before I got the 0x80020022 error again. I ran Disk Warrior again and have been burning the -Rs consistenty (I have a lot of junk to archive off my HD.) But I thought that the type of media might be important to the conversation because the superdrive appears to like one type of DVD blank over another.

Some key points:

1) You said you're using a Mac Mini as your bootup disk. I am using a MacBookPro. This may be significant.

2) Because the error reappears routinely, this is by no means a complete fix. It needs to be repeated when the error reappears. However, in lieu of a more permanent solution, I'll take one that appears to work, even temporarily, until Apple or somebody out there can tell us how to fix this more permanently.

3) Because it appears to be fixed after running Disk Warrior, I am going to conclude that it is a software error, one of the operating system not communicating with the superdrive, and has little or nothing to do with the drive or the media, as I've read on other forums regarding this error. Of course, if your drive really has gone bad, who's to say that it won't prompt the same error, if it is an all-purpose error. I had my superdrive replaced last year, so I'm pretty sure it's not the drive.

Jim