I have just begun burning dvds, and i need a bit of help. I have a dvd player that plays DVD+RW and i have a NEC DVD+RW ND 1100A writing drive for my pc. I have verbatim dvd+rw discs. Now, the problem is this. Burning to my media is working sometimes but not others. A while ago i ripped a disc using DVD shrink and saved it as an ISO file. I burnt it to DVD+RW today using DVD decrypter (after a bit of effort) and it works on my DVD player. I decided to make another disc using exactly the same media and the same method. I rip the dvd, save as an ISO, and burn it to disc using DVD Decrypter. It wont work in my dvd player. Also, when i put it in my pc again, it acts like there is no media on the disc. The DVD+RW that does work however, also gets the same response from the pc: Blank Media. So i am thinking I might have drive problems, or I am doing it worng or something. I would appreciate any help. Thankyou.
@ Yurihyuga what kind of answer is that, without explaining why. at least if Lestat11 makes a cock up whilst he is learning the ropes he can erase the disc and do a new burn without wasteing hard earned cash. @ Lestat11 hi and welcome to AD. do as creaky asks and post a log he's the man to help, if you don't know how to do this he will help you to do so
@Yurihyuga - check out the DVD media forum and the PS2 forum(s), very active forums indeed... plenty of posts for you to read thru there...
Yes DVD+r are good and can be used for PS2 games and movies. I have never used a -R yet. It dosent mean others have good luck with them. Just depends on the burrner and the standalone player you are using. So to say dont use +R disc is bad advice. You need to do some testing with both types if your burrner takes both -r and +r and find out which one works better for the systems you want to play them on. @Lestat11 My advice is get diffrent media. Just cause you get 1 good burn out of the same batch of DVDs dosent mean all the media is good. Bad media also includes inconsitency in burns. I have had media before where every other disc burnt good then the next burnt bad. Got diffrent media till I found media that worked best for me on a consitent bassis So try diffrent media before buying a new Burrnner.
Thanks for the replies guys. Here is a log of the last disc i burnt: I 10:19:22 DVD Decrypter Version 3.5.4.0 started! I 10:19:22 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 10:19:22 Initialising SPTI... I 10:19:22 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 10:19:22 Found 1 CD-ROM, 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD+RW! I 10:19:38 Operation Started! I 10:19:38 Source File: C:\PHONE_BOOTH2.iso I 10:19:38 Source File Sectors: 2,072,809 (MODE1/2048) I 10:19:38 Source File Size: 4,245,112,832 bytes I 10:19:38 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink I 10:19:38 Destination Device: [1:1:0] _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A 108B (E (ATA) I 10:19:38 Destination Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: MCC-A01-00) (Speeds: 2.4x) I 10:19:38 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104 I 10:19:38 Write Mode: DVD I 10:19:38 Write Type: SAO I 10:19:38 Write Speed: MAX I 10:19:38 Link Size: Auto I 10:19:38 Test Mode: No I 10:19:38 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 10:19:38 Filling Buffer... I 10:19:39 Writing LeadIn... I 10:19:39 Writing Image... I 10:41:01 Synchronising Cache... I 10:41:02 Closing Session... I 10:41:57 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:22:18 I 10:41:57 Average Write Rate: 3,236 KB/s (2.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,349 KB/s (2.4x) I tried the disc in my dvd player and it does not work.
@Lestat11 - - first of all, your burner's firmware is 2 revision behind (looks like you have a DELL OEM drive). You need 10GE from here - http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=301 Some food for thought for later, i remembered this - http://herrie.org/upgrdr.html - Basically you could upgrade your drive very slightly, by changing it into an NEC 1300A. This would allow you to burn to -R discs, but only at 4.0x for DVD-R and 2.0x for DVD-RW discs. But as your drive stands, it is only presently capable of burning to 4.0x DVD+R and 2.4x DVD+RW discs. But for now, update the firmware (make sure you pick the correct one!, [bold]10GE[/bold])
Thanks, I'll try that. I just downloaded Nero Infotool, and i noticed something. It says that my ASPI installation is corrupted which doesn't sound healthy. Does this mean anything?
@Lestat11 - yup, download and install 4.71 from here - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/aspi.cfm
I clicked on the link and downloaded it, it just comes up with zip, not winzip, i clicked unzip to the folder, is that it?
Hmmm, it's odd, it won't open with winzip so i extracted it to a folder, and that's all it does. I went into the folder and there are lots of different files. Usually when i open a file it will open in winzip and i can just install it.
It wasn't opening right with me so i installed it another way (run, browse, opened folder, opened .BAT, added XP32 to the end of the command and it installed) Ok, now Nero info tool says: WNASPI32.DLL Version 4.71 ASPI32.SYS Version 4.71 WINNASPI.DLL Version N/A So i think the last one might be the problem?
