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DVD Burner Problems

 
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huck



Joined: 19 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:05 am    Post subject: DVD Burner Problems Reply with quote

Last weekend, I tried burning a DVD, and even though I was only burning less than 2 GB and the DVD was a 4.7 GB, at the very end of the burning process, when it's finished copying everything and closing up the DVD or whatever, an error appeared and said that I suddenly was over the limit by 650 MB..

Now, when I put in a blank DVD, My Computer says that it's a CD drive, and it says that the blank DVD's all of 0 bytes of free space...

I reinstalled my DVD writer software (I think), and that didn't do anything...Does anyone have any suggestions? Does this sound like a broken DVD player or a software issue or a driver issue?

Thanks...
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:08 am    Post subject: Re: DVD Burner Problems Reply with quote

huck wrote:
Last weekend, I tried burning a DVD, and even though I was only burning less than 2 GB and the DVD was a 4.7 GB, at the very end of the burning process, when it's finished copying everything and closing up the DVD or whatever, an error appeared and said that I suddenly was over the limit by 650 MB..

Now, when I put in a blank DVD, My Computer says that it's a CD drive, and it says that the blank DVD's all of 0 bytes of free space...

I reinstalled my DVD writer software (I think), and that didn't do anything...Does anyone have any suggestions? Does this sound like a broken DVD player or a software issue or a driver issue?

Thanks...


Sounds like you have a CD-RW/DVD player NOT a DVD burner....

Read and write CD's .... read DVDs....
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huck



Joined: 19 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No...I've had it for a year and a half...It burns DVDs - just not since Saturday.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

huck wrote:
No...I've had it for a year and a half...It burns DVDs - just not since Saturday.


Then go into the control panel, performance and maintainence, system, click the hardware tab, click device driver, click CD/DVD ROM drives and update/reinstall the device the driver from the hardware CD or download it from the net and reinstall it.
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denverdeath



Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Might be fried. I had an LG that was doing the same. Had it "repaired" - still would not burn DVDs, although CDs would burn fine. I had had it for a little over two years and I think I literally burned the $hit out of it. I said screw it and went and bought a new one for 60, and keep the other for backup. You can get the newer LGs for only 40 these days.
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huck



Joined: 19 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Somehow I fixed it....I reinstalled my DVD writer and then updated my Samsung firmware with Toshiba (according to advice on the internet).

It still says my blank dvd's have 0 bytes of free space when I click on my computer, but....ohwell..
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