"Mark Paterson" <monkeypaterson@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I have this very strange thing happening to my DVD rewriter.
>
> It works perfectly well playing purchased DVDs and burns DVD -R but when I
> try to use DVD+R or DVD RW the icon in My Computer changes from DVD RW
> Drive E: to CD Drive E: It also thinks that the drive is empty of a disk.
> If I try to click on the CD Drive icon it comes up as "Drive not
> accessible. Incorrect Function"!
>
>
> The burner is supposed to handle all types of DVD but Windows cannot
> recognise these formats. I know that it is a problem with windows because
> Nero recognises the disks perfectly well. Trouble is, I need to burn disks
> from outside of Nero and because Windows is not recognising them, other
> programmes don't either like VideoStudio.
>
> I have checked that I have the latest DVD driver and my Slave / Master is
> correctly configured.
>
> Any good ideas what's going on.
>
> It was fine to begin with but I'm not sure what would have changed.
>
> Thanks Mark
>
Windows is NOT a DVD writing platform. It only support UDF (universal data
format) for rewritable CD media and that is why it is switching to thinking
you have a CD-R drive. Windows only comes with a UDF reader/writer
installable file system. UDF may not be the format in which you want to
burn your DVDs. If you want the other non-UDF formats, go buy some
software. You DVD-+RW drive should have come with some. You give no good
reason why you cannot use Nero.
Just because Windows includes *some* support for a device doesn't mean it
completely supports the device. Windows comes with generic mouse drivers,
too, but if you want that 20-button mouse to work then you have to install
that mouse's driver. Yeah, the burner (device) supports lots of formats.
That has nothing to do with the OS, its [installable] file systems, drivers,
or software through which you must access the device.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818733/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283588/en-us
So what did you change recently, like software installs, afterwhich behavior
changed? Did you install Nero's InCD which is their UDF driver and could
conflict with Windows' UDF support (and I know their InCD, as well as
DirectCD from Roxio, is flaky and can blue screen the host). Maybe you need
to reinstall Nero.
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