Re: dvd writer not writing

From: Thomas Wendell (tumppiw_NOSPAM_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:40:11 +0300

To write to DVD-R(W) you need 3rd party software, XP has NO support for
these. To use them as HUGE flopiies, you need a packet writing program like
InCD (Nero) or DirectCD (EasyCD-DVVDWriter minimum ver. 5.3) and then format
DVD-RWs (SLooooW)... 

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"Husky" <cbminfo@toast.net> kirjoitti viestissä
news:8oral0hj7atu4qba94b9s9l0g0jbpm4svr@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:26:02 -0400, "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@virus.net>
wrote:
>
>
> the DVD-r's name brand is non-existent. They're just plain DVD-r's with a
hard
> shell candy coating to write on. white on one side and  bluish silver on
the
> other with just a number on each disk with 4x as part of the number.
> They're the DVD-r's that the place I bought this machine from sells/uses.
> The specs on the liteon DVD pretty much say it'd write to a PB&J sandwich
if
> you stuck it in the drive. Handles just about any format thrown at it. So
it's
> doubtful the place I get all my stuff from would sell me crap. Specially
with
> walmart and office depot so nearby.
> dircetcd doesn't work with XP.
> I've just been using the writer built into explorer. It seems to know what
it's
> doing. it's only screwed 2 files out of several hundred in the past few
days.
> writing to the CD-r's is not the problem. I was under the impression these
4.6
> gig DVD-r's could be used as plain old HUGE data disks.
>
> >What are you using to burn data DVDs with?
> >I use Nero, ISO format.  This is not the same as a packet writer like
INCD
> >or DirectCD or XPs native CD packet writer.  Does not natively work in
> >windows explorer, you have to open the application to do this.  The media
> >(Wal-Mart) itself could be the problem.  Try a different reseller brand
for
> >the DVD media.
> >
> >Suggested newsgroups if your news server carries them:
> >alt.video.dvd.authoring
> >alt video.dvd.software
> >alt.video.dvdr
> >"Husky" <cbminfo@toast.net> wrote in message
> >news:mgj8l0t9am0gkpte8pnv3v869s6uh93de7@4ax.com...
> >> Only partially correct.
> >>
> >> I bought some walmart 700 meg CD-R's. couldn't use Studio to record a
TV
> >show
> >> to them. wrong format. found out I needed a DVD-R disk to write TV
shows
> >to.
> >> Bought some 4.x gig DVD-R's. I was told they can be used as plain old
data
> >> disks also, Tried to write some programs and 2 folders of mp3's under 2
> >gigs to
> >> the DVD-R because they won't all fit on a 700 meg CD-R.
> >>
> >> now it shows 0 bytes and 0 bytes free on the DVD-R's what's going on ?
> >> Tried a second DVD-R same thing 0 bytes total disk space, and 0 bytes
> >free.
> >> I did write 3 half hour shows to a DVD-R the other day with Studio 8.
and
> >the
> >> explorer has no trouble writing to CD-R's
> >> I was kind of hoping to be able to use these 4.x gig DVD-R's as data
disks
> >also
> >> for those programs that require more than 1 CD-R to keep all the
programs
> >in
> >> one place.
> >>
> >> The drive itself is a brand new Liteon DVD-R and hasn't shown any
> >problems. I
> >> also upgraded to SP2 this AM.
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