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DVD Writer Trouble
Hi, I hope someone can help me out with this.
I brought a new Samsung DVD Writer SATA. I set it up on my PC.I already had a combo drive(IDE) and I set both of them up. The trouble is that this new DVD writer does not recognize blank DVDs and can't write DVDs. In fact it can only read/writ/RW CDs and read DVDs written on other PCs and DVD movies etc. Its acting like a combo drive! In My Computer the drive's icon reads DVD/RW but when I put in a blank and open it, the properties of the blank disk are shown as 0 bytes used, 0 bytes free when it should be 4.7 GB free. In Nero, Windows detects the drive as a combo drive in the start up screen-- the NERO screen only shows the option of create data CD even when I in put in a blank DVD. The DVDs written thus are unreadable. Even after removing the older drive this problem persists. I have even got the drive repaired from the Samsung service centre(they couldn't test it in front of me) I don't know whether there is a problem with the drive or will i have to reinstall XP with the DVD writer plugged in? |
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DVD Writer Trouble
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q316529 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Nikhil Menon" Nikhil wrote in message ... Hi, I hope someone can help me out with this. I brought a new Samsung DVD Writer SATA. I set it up on my PC.I already had a combo drive(IDE) and I set both of them up. The trouble is that this new DVD writer does not recognize blank DVDs and can't write DVDs. In fact it can only read/writ/RW CDs and read DVDs written on other PCs and DVD movies etc. Its acting like a combo drive! In My Computer the drive's icon reads DVD/RW but when I put in a blank and open it, the properties of the blank disk are shown as 0 bytes used, 0 bytes free when it should be 4.7 GB free. In Nero, Windows detects the drive as a combo drive in the start up screen-- the NERO screen only shows the option of create data CD even when I in put in a blank DVD. The DVDs written thus are unreadable. Even after removing the older drive this problem persists. I have even got the drive repaired from the Samsung service centre(they couldn't test it in front of me) I don't know whether there is a problem with the drive or will i have to reinstall XP with the DVD writer plugged in? |
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