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DVD-RW Drive no see blank DVD's
Name: thequantaleaper Date: December 31, 2003 at 00:52:26 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: AMD 2Ghz/ 512mb
Comment:
I have a Memorex DVD+RW/+R Drive and every time I put a blank DVD-RW or DVD-R disk in, the computer refuses to recognize the presence of the disk and the orange LED on the front of the drive just flashes endlessly until i remove the disk.
Even when I use DVD burning sofwares both the one that came with it and other programs, it just spins the disk, flashes the LED, and acts like nothing is in the drive.
Name: GerryC Date: December 31, 2003 at 06:00:20 Pacific
Reply:
"I have a Memorex DVD+RW/+R Drive and every time I put a blank DVD-RW or DVD-R disk". If it is a DVD+RW/+R drive it will not write to DVD-RW/-R media. Have you tried a DVD+RW/+R disc?
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Response Number 2
Name: thequantaleaper Date: December 31, 2003 at 10:00:42 Pacific
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Whats the difference... and I've only tried Memorex DVD+RW and DVD+R disks.
Well, which is it. In your first post you said you used DVD-R and DVD-RW. Now you're saying you have only tried DVD+RW and DVD+R.
They are two totaly different formats and if you drive only supports the + format, then you won't be able to use the - format.
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Response Number 4
Name: thequantaleaper Date: December 31, 2003 at 12:32:32 Pacific
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Your right.. .i was using the dvd-r and dvd-rw disks. So what is the difference? They really should've labled them DVD-R(Type A) and DVD-R(Type B) if they are different types
Shoot I didn't even notice that there was a difference with the + and -, that is without you pointing it out to me (thanks by the way).
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