Ok I am lost and mabye its because of my inexperience but here is my problem. I have a TDK DVDrw0404 with freshly updated firmware to burn dvds with. I use CloneDVD2 and AnyDVD combo to back up movies. When I first got the programs I had only 5 Fujifilm 4.7gb DVD-RW's to burn on. I successfuly burnt onto the 5 dvds, Romeo must die being one of them. I went to the store and bought Sony 25DMR47LS4 DVD-R's. I tryed to burn on these and it didnt work. I tried the same movie Romeo must die nothing changed every thing the same and when it gets to the burning stage it brings up an error right away and wont even start the prosses. I have tried every diferent speed even 2x with the sony and it wont start to burn. The only reason I can come up with that the Fujifilm DVD-RW works and the sony DVD-R's do not is because on the Fujifilm it says on it up to 2x write speed which I think that means its max. Any info that might correct this problem let me know or if you would like more information please ask, this is very frustrating.
I dont know if this helps but this is the Fujifilm disk I used ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD-RW:RITEKW01] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disc & Book Type : [DVD-RW] - [DVD-RW] Manufacturer Name : [Ritek Corp.] Manufacturer ID : [RITEKW01] Blank Disc Capacity : [2,298,496 Sectors = 4.71 GB (4.38 GiB)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ DVD Identifier V5.0.1 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- And this is the sony Dvd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD-R:SONY16D1] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disc & Book Type : [DVD-R] - [DVD-R] Manufacturer Name : [Sony Recording Media Co.] Manufacturer ID : [SONY16D1] Blank Disc Capacity : [2,298,496 Sectors = 4.71 GB (4.38 GiB)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ DVD Identifier V5.0.1 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
what you want to do is write to a disk as an exact copy..... because you already did the burn to an RW you should have no problem transfering the same DVD files to a -R disk. You can use Nero to do an exact copy and can even burn on the fly. you can use CloneDVD alone to copy the disk exactly!! Making a copy of a copy should be no problem! Now let's look at your drive... that TDK 0404 is old. the newest firmware is from 2004... going on 3yrs ago, now! Which means that your Sony disk could be too high speed for your burner..... so it might fail because of the disk alone. Use disks that are no more than 8x and hope that your firmware recognizes the disk and is able to write to it! good luck.
samphi , Welcome to the forum. I think that your burner is a re badged NEC 1300. If so it really is a old burner and since the firmware has not been updated in quite a while I think that is the problem. The burner can not recog the newer blank media. The only way to correct this is to find 4X or maybe some 8X blank media that the burner recog or buy another burner. Buying the new burner would be the best solution as they are approx $40.00 and up in the US
I must agree with you guys it is a very old burner (got it first came out) What you all say makes sence because the dvd-rw DVD's (2x speed max) that worked I got at the same time I got the burner. It probably is not capable of reading the newer 16x speed dvds. Guess I have something to spend those best buy gift certicates I got for christmas on. Thanks for all the posts I will buy a new burner and let you know if it solved the problem.
