I have a lite-on shw-1635s and since i have bought it i have been backin up my games but back-ups never seem to work on my xbox. I have a samsung reader in the xbox. my friend has a pioneer reader i think and all of them seem to work on his. when ever i put a dvd in my xbox that i have backed-up it tells me the drive is empty and status unknown,even with divx films. Can anyone please help with this annoying matter or do i have to go and get a new dvdrw i.e samsung. thanx in advance. Vampiro
Is your backup recognized by your friend's xbox? Are you using decent quality media and burning at 1/2 or less the rated speed of the media? Is your burner's firmware up to date? What model of burner is it again, the 1633 or the 1653? I'm not familiar with a 1635. Firmware can be found below or at the Lite-On support site: http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?category=4&manufactor=17 The brand of DVD burner shouldn't make any difference.
What format are you using? If using the plus format,are you booktying them to dvd-rom?which Lite-on drives have that capability using a utility. That x-box is giving you a no disc error.It doesn't recongnize your backups. Your x-box has a compatability issue with the backups from your Lite-on 1635s-by getting no disc errors.If you're not booktyping,then you'll have a greater chance for no disc errors on your backups on certain drives. Booktyping them usually takes care of that little issue. Could be media quality but majority of the time it's a format issue.
thanxs for the quick response laddyboy and saugmon my drive is a 1635 and i'm burning at 4x. im burning in iso format at most minimal speed.could u explain exactly wot flashing does to the drive and wot i'll need to do after i have done so. My friends xbox recongnises and plays all format i chuck at it. just abit of a pain in the ass as u can amagine. saugmon u said about booktyping how do u go about doing this and wot software will i need to get. at the mo i'm burning with nero premium7edition and have been told that it should be the best for the job. and using datawrite dvd-r. Again thanx for the quick response. and i'll hope to hear from u soon. thanxs Vampiro
Datawrite uses a number of different manufacturers for its media, inclusing some really poorer quality ones. It's impossible to say just by looking at the disk who manufactured it. Download DVDIdentifier from the link below and get the media code which will tell who manufactured that particular Datawrite media: http://dvdidentifer.cdfreaks.com DVD Identifier will also indicate the current firmware version for your burner. It'll be a 4 letter combination after the name of the drive/burner. The most current firmware version for your 1635 burner is version YSOZ available here: http://www.liteonamericas.com/twnmain/DOWNLOADS/ODD/SHW-1635S/firmware/DR16YS0Z.zip or here: http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2141 If you have an older firmware than YSOZ, then download the YSOZ firmware file from one of the links above. Double click the downloaded file to expand the archive and run the extracted EXE flasher program. The program should locate your Liteon burner and ask for confirmation for flashing the new firmware to your drive. The Liteon booktyping utility can be downloaded here: http://us.liteonit.com/us/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=152 Booktyping a +R disk as a DVD-ROM disk only applies to +R media but it can fool a drive into thinking it has a regular pressed DVD and sometime increases playability for some drives. It won't work with -R media which is what you are using now. You might want to try a +R disk of decent quality such as those made by Taiyo Yuden (available online), Made in Japan labeled Fuji and Sony (usually Taiyo Yuden manufactured), or Verbatim. Burning at the slowest speed is sometimes not the best either. A good rule of thumb is to burn at half the rated speed of the media if your burner and system supports it. I usually never go below 4X for 8X or 16X rated media.
thanx again for quick response laddyboy. i have just downloaded those files u told me about seemingly my disks are cmg. i'll have to wait for time being for new's disk just got a big supply of them. at the moment i have a lone of a samsung dvdrw and i tried to burn off a back-up last nite everything worked fine in xbox. once i get my writer back i'll have a play around with the other programs you suggested. thanks for all your help so far. and i'll be intouch. Vampiro
cmc mag are among the worst quality media and can be troublesome for some burners. I'd definitely burn these at 4X to try to get s good burn.
