Hi,
I could really use some input on a problem I recently discovered, 'cause I
am stumped. I put into my DVD+-RW drive a DVD-R disc which I burned on this very same drive a few months back. This is a data disc full of MP3s and
MPEG, AVI files. Unfortunately, the dvd+-rw drive couldnt read it. I am
running Windows XP and went into My Computer and noticed that after
inserting the disc the icon goes from saying "DVD-RW Drive (D
" to saying "CD Drive (D" but it does not show any files on the disc. I went through my 100 DVD-R discs (all of them Maxell 4X) and found that 10 of them had this problem, whereas the other 90 DVD-R discs were ok. All of my DVD+R discs seemed to read fine.
However, these discs which my drive could not read all play fine on the standalone DVD player hooked up to my
stereo.
I took a couple of these problematic dvd-r discs to a computer store and noticed that none of the dvd+-rw drives there could read them, each one doing exactly what my own computer had done. But they all read fine on a DVD-ROM drives.
They let me copy a disc on one of the machines that had a DVD-ROM drive in one bay and a burner in the other, and I went home and found that the copy (on a DVD+R disc) read just fine on my computer.
This has all left me a bit puzzled.
Why would the discs work on some drives and not work on others, including the one it was burned on ? Is there a possible explanation for this ? And why, if the problem has to do with writing to and reading from DVD-R media on a DVD+-RW drive, would only a few of my DVD-R discs give trouble and the rest work fine ? They were all burned the same way.
Thanks so much for any help you can provide.
I could really use some input on a problem I recently discovered, 'cause I
am stumped. I put into my DVD+-RW drive a DVD-R disc which I burned on this very same drive a few months back. This is a data disc full of MP3s and
MPEG, AVI files. Unfortunately, the dvd+-rw drive couldnt read it. I am
running Windows XP and went into My Computer and noticed that after
inserting the disc the icon goes from saying "DVD-RW Drive (D
" to saying "CD Drive (D" but it does not show any files on the disc. I went through my 100 DVD-R discs (all of them Maxell 4X) and found that 10 of them had this problem, whereas the other 90 DVD-R discs were ok. All of my DVD+R discs seemed to read fine.However, these discs which my drive could not read all play fine on the standalone DVD player hooked up to my
stereo.
I took a couple of these problematic dvd-r discs to a computer store and noticed that none of the dvd+-rw drives there could read them, each one doing exactly what my own computer had done. But they all read fine on a DVD-ROM drives.
They let me copy a disc on one of the machines that had a DVD-ROM drive in one bay and a burner in the other, and I went home and found that the copy (on a DVD+R disc) read just fine on my computer.
This has all left me a bit puzzled.
Why would the discs work on some drives and not work on others, including the one it was burned on ? Is there a possible explanation for this ? And why, if the problem has to do with writing to and reading from DVD-R media on a DVD+-RW drive, would only a few of my DVD-R discs give trouble and the rest work fine ? They were all burned the same way.
Thanks so much for any help you can provide.
