Tried new Maxell -R, TDK -R and the Pioneer RW and -R that came with the A05. Drive fails to recognize any of them. Drive WILL recognize CD, CDRW, and will play Commercial DVD movies. Any ideas?
Are you using XP by chance? If so, it sounds like your running on the standard XP drivers for cd players. Try going into the device mgr, and removing the drive from there, as well as uninstalling the software that came with the drive. (probably sonic my dvd.) Turn off the computer, unplug the drives cables, restart it, make sure nothing shows up, no drive and no software. Turn it off, reinstall the drive, then use THAT drive to install the Sonic software that came with it. It should read as a DVD-R drive then, not as a CD-rw. I had the same problem, and that cured it for me anyway. Good luck to you. Shooter==>>
Shooter, Am using XP, but drive already reads as DVD-R. Started up Prassi Primo and strangely enough, it detected the blank media where all other softwares had failed. After that, tried burning a DVD using Pinnacle Studio 8 and it worked just fine. Thanks for the help...
Excuse me if I'm wrong but must the DVD-R be formatted first before it can be recognized ? It will be sitting there in the DVD burner just waiting to be formatted or burned something in it but can't open it because there's nothing there.
I think that only DVD-RW's need to be formatted, and even then only for data storage. Not sure, but suspect that ANY writing to a DVD-R, including an attempt to format, will forever close the disc when the write is complete. To my knowledge, DVD-R is a one-time-write media.
[bold]DVD-R:[/bold] you are correct...it is a write once media !: ) [bold]DVD-RW:[/bold] Can be left open or closed...left open so at to multi-session if need be. (-R/RW or +R/RW) herbs
