My Nero burning Rom 6 has been working fine for a year or more - copying DVDs onto a Samsung 'writemaster'. A week ago it STILL worked fine - now, on exactly the same DVD that worked a week ago (a private film, no copyprotection of any kind) it suddenly aborts the 'copy DVD' function with this message: "Sorry, the current recorder supports only the following disc types: CD-R/RW; Fixed Packetwriting, but the compilation can only be written on a DVD R/RW; DVD DL; DVD-RAM. Please select a different recorder." The DVD itself plays normally, as it has all along, on Nero Showtime. Any ideas where I should start looking? (The DVD I'm trying to copy is of the type: TDK, DVD-R, 1-16x 4.7GB) I'd be most grateful. I'm rather stumped, and this is quite an important task that I'm supposed to be doing. best, and thanks ....
Have you added or removed any software, like InCD or Roxio that would cause the writer to behave like this? You might run the InfoTools to see how your drive is reported. You might also try removing the drive in Device Manager and let Windows reinstall it. I don't know if the DVD uses different components to write a DVD, but perhaps you writer is having some type of problem. A reinstall should restore default settings in case something changed your drive.
Thank you. I've followed the suggestion, and done some checks. 1) I ran Registry Mechanic. Several Nero-related warnings, all fixed. No effect on that abort message. 2) I deleted the DVD driver ("TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S162L") and let windows install a new one on boot-up, which it did. The device manager shows no errors. No effect on the abort message, which remains the same. (The only recently installed progs that I can think of is an automatic Apple update this morning: Itunes and Quicktime.) If it would fix it, I'd be prepared to update to Nero burning rom 7... I'd be really grateful for some ideas...
Forgot to add this: when I run Nero InfoTool, (which reports the same driver as my device driver: SH-S162L) the only write features that this drive does NOT support are: BD-R, BD-RE, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, SolidBurn. In both the Read Features and the Write features DVD+R and DVD-R are ‘ticked’. (As well as RW)
Just to make sure, you said you deleted the driver for the device--did you actually remove the device from device manager and reboot? Other than these two items, all I might think (guess) is you have some setting that is causing the problem when trying to burn, or the original DVD was burned using a proprietary software of some type. Or, your writer does have a problem. I assume you are starting with a copy DVD and not copy CD option? Can you copy the DVD to a hard drive, or the image recorder? I suppose the bottom line is, if it did work and now it doesn't, either something broke or something is interferring. Perhaps it is the new iTunes, it does have a CD burning capability, but I don't know for sure.
fvgfvg, the only write features that this drive does NOT support are: BD-R, BD-RE, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, SolidBurn. From the above sentence, your drive only support R+ and not R- format. You should use dvd+r instead of dvd-r.
Eh: the 'copy dvd' window sometimes obscures the underlying burning rom window, so that one doesn't notice that what's selected is the OTHER drive, the CD-drive. Please forgive. (I'm blushing so hard I can't imagine anyone reading these lines not noticing..) Best, and thank you. Sometimes it's simply so that getting someone else to consider the problem helps one to see that blind spot.. I'm really most grateful.. (The feeling I have is the same one when, in response to the standard hot-line question: 'forgive me for asking, but is it plugged in?', one realizes: he's *right*, it *ain't*.)
