DVD Drive Problems

[Meh]

I have a problem that the drive wont read the writeble dvds I put into it. It reads and writes to regular cdr's fine yet wont pick up my dvd's. Any idea please?

[quasi-modo]

throw it on the floor 

*I wish I could help but I really have no idea why a dvd player would not read a dvd read a cd

[effect]

I have a problem that the drive wont read the writeble dvds I put into it. It reads and writes to regular cdr's fine yet wont pick up my dvd's. Any idea please?

Your burner is not universal , as in it wont burn -r and +r dvds , you will have to find out which technology your burner uses and then purchase the dvds accordinally.

[tA-Kane]

whenever possible, use +r dvds, they're mucho better ggkthx

[Meh]

Sorry I have a multi burner. It burns every kind. For some reason it works nowI changed it from the Slave to a master. Thanks for the ideas and help.

[effect]

whenever possible, use +r dvds, they're mucho better ggkthx

There is generally no difference between the two , just differnt companys with differnt names for there technology. The myth's that these discs hold more data and are more reliable arnt exactly true.

[l)ragon]

whenever possible, use +r dvds, they're mucho better ggkthx

Depends on the brands and speed used, I have a -R, -RW, -RAM (+/- on these dont matter they are far better than R/RW), and I only use Kodak/Sony now, I find with the cheap brands you run into more write errors than anything (4:10 bad dvd's).

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I have a problem that the drive wont read the writeble dvds I put into it. It reads and writes to regular cdr's fine yet wont pick up my dvd's. Any idea please?

Your DVD-ROM either dosent support reading the DVD's format that you put in the drive or you may need that drive cleaned.
Edit2: heh or you still havent installed the drivers for your DVD-ROM.

[tA-Kane]

whenever possible, use +r dvds, they're mucho better ggkthx

There is generally no difference between the two , just differnt companys with differnt names for there technology. The myth's that these discs hold more data and are more reliable arnt exactly true.

"generally no difference" only if you don't plan on using your DVDs in DVD movie players. DVD-Rs are not compatible with DVD movie players, whereas DVD+Rs are.

The myths that the different formats (- vs +) hold more data and are more reliable are indeed just that myths... from what I can tell. The reliability of a disc is based more on the actual physical makeup of the disc, and different companies usually use different makeups for the DVDs they make.

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

I have a problem that the drive wont read the writeble dvds I put into it. It reads and writes to regular cdr's fine yet wont pick up my dvd's. Any idea please?

That happened with my CD-RW drive (didn't work for CD-R, but did for -RW).  The only solution was a new drive (but we got a better one, from 12x10x32x to 52x32x52x)

[effect]

"generally no difference" only if you don't plan on using your DVDs in DVD movie players. DVD-Rs are not compatible with DVD movie players, whereas DVD+Rs are.

I have over 150 burnt DVD-R's and they ALL work in my DVD player.