I just got set up to burn some backups of my DVD collection and my drive will not recognize the blank DVD-R. I bought Comp-USA 4X DVD-R's. 100 pack was 20 bucks. Reading some other forums this may be the problem. I have a dell that came with the DVD-RW. It is a TEAC DVD+RW DV-W58E. It recognizes CD-R's just fine. Could these DVD-R's I got need to be formatted? Even so I do not get a format option when right clicking on my drive. Any help is appreciated. Thanks ahead of time. Remus
@remusny I would say it's the CompUSA discs - not good stuff or made by a quality manufacturer. Buy the good stuff - instore look for Verbatim or made in Japan Fuji,Sony or Maxell. They run sales on these brands all the time at Best Buy, Staples etc. (if in the US) Also make sure your drives firmware is up to date. If you are running XPSP2 to see what version you have- in device manager look here (it will be in the far right You can then search by your model # here and see if there is a recent update: http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php
Specs for TEAC DVD+RW DV-W58E Supported Recording Modes: Disk-at-once, track-at-once, packet writing, session-at-once Supported Media Types: CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+RW, DVD+R It will not burn dash R.
@Noqoilpi Good point!!! I assume (& we all know that saying) dual format. So yep that's why they aren't recognized! So remusny you need +r - still buy the good stuff (not compusa brand) but in +r format.
The first rule is to make sure it is plugged in. KISS [Keep it simple stupid] Ritek Ridata Branded 8X DVD+R Media 100 Pack in Cake Box Spindle 24.99 Shipping: 7.97 Total: 32.96 9.00 rebate Cost 23.96 Why take a crap shoot. CompUSA has some good discs, but till you get it home and run a check on the media code, you can not know. http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.p...rder=Name&hits=25&search=Search+or+List+Media http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.p...rder=Name&hits=25&search=Search+or+List+Media PS Thanx for the post I had forgotten about my rebate. I just bought 200 last week. Have to fill up my new Sony DVP-CX995V DVD Player. I was looking for some kind of storage for my DVD collection when I happened on this bad boy. It holds 400 DVDs.
SONY? You need to stay away from brands who just slap their name on someone else’s discs. Look at this page. http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.p...s=25&search=Search or List Media&next=25#next Some good and bad. You are just rolling the dice. I did the same thing back when I first started. I was in a hurry to burn so I went to the store and bought some crap on the self. I was lucky. You should buy online. Someone has a deal all the time many with free shipping. http://www.supermediastore.com/ http://www.meritline.com/index.html http://www.newegg.com/ Or run your own search on Blank DVD Media. Look for Ritek, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden Go here and do some research. http://forums.afterdawn.com/forum_view.cfm/47 If you keep rolling the dice, just watch out for them snake eyes http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dvd_identifier.cfm http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dvdinfopro.cfm Edit to fix gif
