I know there are plenty of threads about this already but.... I've been using shrink & decrypter to back up some of my kids dvds (they're brutal on the dvd's) with memorex dvd-r 8x 4.7gb with no problems. I bought a new 50 pack of maxell which won't work and then a ten pk of fujifilm which also won't (comes up medium not present) I had a couple of the memorex left so I used those again with no problems. Any suggestions for a newbie. I'm trying not to waste these dvd-r's. Buy more memorex? Thanks in advance guys
Hi there, Please provide us with a little more details. What DVD Burner do you have ? Do you have the latest firmware installed ? - Maybe those new Maxell are not being recognised by your DVD Burner. What software do you use to burn, DVD Decrypter ? (Burn an .ISO) ? If you use Nero or VSO CopyToDVD, provide us with a Full LOG file, there's a lot we can see in there. Maxell should be better than the Memorex, and FujiFilm pretty good. VSO Inspector v1.1 --> http://www.vso-software.fr DVDInfoPro --> http://www.dvdinfopro.com Can provide you info on your DVD Burner, and get the Media Code off those blanks. From there we can help you search if you have the latest firmware and why it doesn't like those new media.
what speed are you burning with the maxell 8x? try slower speed about the fujifilm ones are they - or + and can your burner read +'s if there + i would also sug buying riteks (my opinion) and burn at 4x hope this helps damn cougar we posted the same time
The drive is a philips dvd8421 came with my hp. As for the media i downloaded vso inspecter and it says no media inserted for both the fuji and maxell. I've been burning with decrypter to this point. Haven't done anything regarding firmware. was burning at max speed using memorex, and have tried every speed in between for the other two. Thanks for the point in the right direction. Sorry if this double posts
Hi there, Here's the link to the firmware for your burner: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=433019&lang=en&cc=us&softwareitem=pv-25051-1 ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software4/COL9264/pv-25051-1/SP26401.exe This seems to be the latest firmware for your drive. With VSO Inspector again, check what firmware is currently on your burner.
to find the best firmware open dvd decrypter to write mode right click on your drive and the bottom selection is find firmware upgrade if it finds one for you then you might have just found your sollution.
@l8nights - i didn't know that (don't usually trust things like that to be clever enough myself) but cheers, will have to remember that one
@ creaky live & you learn just figured that out yest. we're going to miss lightning huh? it's got to be up to date at least as of three months ago. also I have been recommending dvd info pro and vso has a freebie just found out check it out. I think you have to register info pro now. any ways dl vso's now to see what it is about ps. great app cheers
Hi there, I didn't like VSO Inspector v1.0.9 because it flaged all EMPTY sectors (00 00 00 00 00) as bad. That's wrong Their latest version VSO Inspector v1.1 fixed all that. Now it can scan all the sectors off the media, and don't bother with the empty ones. There's also a new feature called File Scan. It will open and read every file off the media, faking you are trying to copy from the media to your HD for example. This way you are sure every sector of the media (Where written) is readable, and each file can be open individualy. I am now a VSO man
Alright guys, once again thanks for all your help, but....... I've been trying unsuccessfully all weekend to upgrade firmware. I download the upgrade burn it to cd-rw then restart as instructed. When i try to open the upgrade windows installer starts but I get an error message The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'RNENU.msi'in the box below. The box has c:\hp\tmp\src\ 1 I'm now officially lost. Any suggestions
ok did some checking and here is an article where several ppl have had your problem. looks as though your drive does not support -r or -rw format's only +r but check it out there is a link for the most recent firmware there hope it helps some the thread http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=110403 the firmware http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=es&lc=en&tool=softwareCategory&dlc=es&os=228
