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Vista DVD drive refuses to display burned files :-(

  • 31-07-2007 11:42am
    #1
    eskimo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭


    Dell Inspiron 1501
    Windows Vista Home Basic
    AMD Turion 64 x2 Processor Dual Core
    1GB RAM
    80 GB HD
    DVD+RW x8

    Hey

    Situation 1: My friend gave me a cd containing photos and videos on it. I inserted it into the DVD drive. 'My Computer' showed the CD to contain 600MB of data, and the rest was free space. But when I clicked into the folder it appeared totally empty. It said "Drag files here to burn to CD".
    I then put the CD into my regular DVD player which can display pictures, and it allowed me to look at the photos.

    Situation 2: I burned a DVD successfully using Nero Burning ROM. However when I re-inserted the dvd into my computer it showed the DVD to contain 4GB of data, and the rest was free space, but just as before, when I clicked into the folder it appeared totally empty, saying just "Drag files here to burn to DVD".

    This is driving me crazy because my hard-drive is almost completely full and I need to stick a load of files onto DVD to free up my hard-drive because my computer is running so slowly at the moment.

    Can anyone shed any light on this? Any solutions??

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    The answer is most likely that the drive in the laptop is not a very good reader & it's not actually a software problem per say.

    The medias quality and what it was burned with all factor into how the drive can read it.

    I would recommend changing media to something of better quality e.g Verbatim CD or DVD's or update the firmware of the DVDRW drive but this is a tricky process so only use firmware updates supplied by Dell.


  • #3
    eskimo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭eskimo


    Thanks for your help.

    It reads DVDs (the same brand) that I burned with Windows XP on my older Dell PC.

    Just can't figure this out :(


  • #4
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Yeah but your other PC may have a better writer with a firmware more attuned to the media so it produces a better quality burn so thats why the laptop reads it.

    It's no mystery this is quite common happens all the time with DVDRW drives.


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