I Think this is the right place for this thread... Anyway i dont have internet access at home so i go to my friends house to d/l music, movies, etc and then i burn them on to dvd and bring them home (data dvd). I use Nero 7 to burn the dvd's. He has windows xp home. I used to have windows 2000 server and the dvd's always worked, never burned one that didnt work. Recently i just upgraded to XP Pro and the other day i burned 3 dvd's and none of them work. Yesterday i took the discs back to my friends house and his computer reads them fine. But when i put them in my computer my dvd drive name changes to CD-ROM and the disc shows up as blank. Normally it would say the name of the disc ie MyDisc. And nothing i have reads them, ive tried dvd decrypter, isobuster, nothing finds data on them. But the data is there you can see it when you look at the bottom and plus his computer reads them fine and i think if i went back to windows 2k server mine would too, what do i have to do to make my comp read them? i should also tell you that all the other dvds i have can be read on my computer at home whether theyre movies, data disc, whatever, cause i back up all my stuff on dvd and all my backup discs can be read, but the 3 new ones cant. and like i said they can be read at his house so i can take them back there, and copy the data and re-burn them but i want to figure out why my computer wont read them I think i should also add that if i open cmd prompt and do a e: to change to the dvd drive while the disc is in there it says file system unknown or unknown file system, somethin like that
I get this a lot with XP especially after moving data files from DVD to CD. I either uninstall the controller that the burner is connected to using 'Device Manager' - in my case the Secondary controller - and reboot. Or look at the drive properties, under the 'Recording' tab, uncheck 'enable cd recording for this drive' 'ok' then turn it back on again a few times, until it sees the disk.
