I have been having a problem with my dvd drive recently, about one or two weeks. The drives on my computer play cd's but not all dvds. I dont think this is the same problem others are having, since my dvd will read all dvds, including ones that are burnt as backups. In these past two weeks I have backuped about six movies on to fujifilm, made from taiwan, dvd+r discs. I know they are crappy media, but my dvd reads 5 of them flawlessly but wont read the other one. It doesnt recognize the dvd, it just says( free space 0 bytes, total space 0 bytes). None of the softwares, Nero or Imgburn will recognize the dvd, they read it as empty. So I dont think the problem is the dvd+r or its brand. Could it have anything to do with the burning software? Of the 5 movies, 4 where made using dvdfab, 1 using nero, and the one that wont work( is Imgburn). But imgburn is supposed to be a phenomenal program. My two drives are: Philips DVD +-RW SDVD8820 HT1110G JVM023L SCSI CdRom Device I remember reading somewhere I could try uninstalling my IDE channel that my dvd is on, and that it usually the second one. However when I checked under device manager I do not have a second channel. I just have these two under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers heading: Primary IDE channel Standard Dual channel PCI IDE controller. Also my burn log for Imgburn showed that the operation was successful and then Imgburn verified the dvd, and it said operation failed. Does that mean Imgburn actually never burned the dvd? Maybe, because as I said before, when I put this disk back, Imgburn said empty disc. So I burned for the first time, or second time, onto this disc again, this time without the verification process. It showed me a successful burn again. And I think it did actually burn something the first time, or second, because my dvd drive does that layer of written information that burnt dvds are supposed to have. But no software or drive has recognized it as of yet.
duff disk.. if you burned to it twice there is most certainly something wrong with just that one. pebkac otherwise.
Thanks for your help, but I do not think that was the problem. Obviously if a burned disc, shows up as empty, allowing you to burn again, there is something wrong there. But I do not think it was the disc, because if it was the disk, it should have happened to all the same fujifilm discs. It didnt, but at the same time, it did happen to two, so its not a coincidence. Either the media or the burner itself is bad, it could not have just been one faulty disc from a whole spindle or one bad burn. Also the problem I have with these discs, when I say a bad burn is, the discs do not burn at all, burn but are called empty by computers, software and everything( even with a burn ring around it), or they do not work properly, or they do not work at all. Would taiyo yuden media be a good substitute or verbatim? The reason I ask, is because, I know they are both good media, but me having a bad player and or bad dvd burner could mean rejection for either or. I do not know. I have also heard of TY's being great but having bad reflectivity, and that's supposed to be expected. If that's the case, would that be the worst media for me?
