TSGL: DVD-RW & CD-RW not writeable

[Tilman Brandl]

Ron,

not sure whether I really understand your problem:

> I've just recently had my two DVD-RW drives stop recognizing 
> rewriteable
> media. I am using Nero Ultra 7.5 and I still seem to be able to burn 
> CD-Rs.
> I haven't tested DVD-R because I don't want to waste the DVD (yet).

Then how did Nero recognize these media before? My version 6.0 has an 
option to analyze a CD/DVD and if I recall this correctly just says 
"empty". What happens with your version when you insert a new disc?

> InCD reports that I cannot write to the RW media and Windows Explorer 
> shows
> 0 bytes free.

InCD will only write to the media after formatting - so, I guess, you 
formatted it ? Not sure about the 0 byte message - do you see it before 
or after formatting?

Maybe others more knowledgeable than I will offer better advice. Anyway, 
there can be problems with InCD depending on the software configuration 
& possible conflicts with other software (XPs own InCD burning 
software!)

See http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=inCD+burning+problem

Tilman

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
Von: "Ron Brunton" <rbrunton at accesswave.ca>
An: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Oktober 2006 19:28
Betreff: TSGL: DVD-RW & CD-RW not writeable


> Hi list,
>
> I've just recently had my two DVD-RW drives stop recognizing 
> rewriteable
> media. I am using Nero Ultra 7.5 and I still seem to be able to burn 
> CD-Rs.
> I haven't tested DVD-R because I don't want to waste the DVD (yet). 
> However,
> InCD reports that I cannot write to the RW media and Windows Explorer 
> shows
> 0 bytes free. This behaviour has just started recently, but I don't 
> know of
> any system changes that would have produced this effect, although 
> there
> obviously was something. I have re-installed Nero, but that hasn't 
> made any
> difference.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
> System: Intel Core Duo w/ 4GB RAM
> Benq DVD-RW
> Sony DVD-RW
> WinXP SP2 (fully patched)
>
> Ron