I just borrow a home-movie from a friend on a DVD+R disc, and I could not read it in any of 4 different computers I tried. After I inserted the disc it looks like there is no disc in the drive. Nero Brurning ROM shows that there is no disc in the drive when using the "disc info" menu. It played OK in my standalone DVD player though, which is kind of weird to me. To my amazement the guy I borrowed it from can actually read it on his laptop, but he admits that he cannot read in the burner he used for burning it. Does anyone have hany idea wat is wrong with the disc?
You can find most of the info to help yourself with this by using DVDInfopro proggy. That said...more info needed. Media brand - player brands....etc.
The DVD+R disc is a Fujifilm 8x. One of the DVD drives I tried is a Memorex Dual-X, another on is in a Dell Latitude laptop and reports as a LG DVD-ROM DRN8080B. I already gave the disc back to the guy, so I cannot run DVDInfopro on it. As said before I tried Nero's disc info, and it not recognize a disc in the drive. I also tried to fire up DVDecrypter and when set to ISO mode it reported that it got errors reading the TOC. So the computer cannot read the TOC and therefore does not recognize a disc in the drive, but how the h... can the standalone DVD player (Philips 3700 system I think) then read it. I also understand that you can sometime read the media in the computer but not in standalone players if the disc is not finalized. But my problem is opposite.
It is possible that the dvd drives in your computer don't read dvd+r format. I looked for info and all I saw were posts by unhappy Dell owners. But mostly I'd suspect BAD media.
