corsasport.co.uk
 

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » DVD-+R/RW


New Topic

New Poll
  Subscribe | Add to Favourites

You are not logged in and may not post or reply to messages. Please log in or create a new account or mail us about fixing an existing one - register@corsasport.co.uk

There are also many more features available when you are logged in such as private messages, buddy list, location services, post search and more.


Author DVD-+R/RW
Brett
Premium Member

Avatar

Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
   1st Oct 06 at 10:32   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

My Computer is only 6 months old. It's a Dell.

There's something funny with my DVD-+R/RW drive.

Before I went on holiday last week, it decided it'd no longer recognise DVD-R Discs and would only write to DVD+R & CD-R discs.

Now it's being even more of a turd and will only burn to DVD+R discs....not even CD-R's now!!

It's not like it just won't burn them, if i put them in the drive it won't even recognise the disc at all, yet it'll still recognise DVD+R's

I've tried the obvious like installing new drivers and rolling back the machine to when it worked properly, but no joy

It is still under warranty but Dell want me to send them my entire machine, which I really don't want to do.

Anyone else experienced similar and overcome the problem?
If I think back, it started to go wrong when I installed a virtual CD Drive, i've since uninstalled that tho.
Aaron
Member

Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 10:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Would it be a problem to do a factory rebuild from the cd?

abdus
Member

Registered: 23rd Feb 06
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 10:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

what kind of warranty you have?

on-site?
Brett
Premium Member

Avatar

Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 10:53   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by abdus
what kind of warranty you have?

on-site?


Return to base

AJ: What do yuo mean
Aaron
Member

Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 10:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

You should have got some sort of restore cd with the computer...with most companies like Hp, Dell etc they give you a cd that you put in and boot from, then it will set your machine back to the way it was the day you got it

[Edited on 01-10-2006 by Aj.]
Brett
Premium Member

Avatar

Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 11:00   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I do't really want to do that. I've got loads of gear on here now that I don't want to lose, also don't want Mr.Dell rooting round it
abdus
Member

Registered: 23rd Feb 06
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 11:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

remove the drive and try it in another pc..

if it still does it then definitely it's the dvd drive
_Allan_
Member

Registered: 24th Mar 04
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 12:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by abdus
remove the drive and try it in another pc..

if it still does it then definitely it's the dvd drive


Yep get another drive and try it in your PC. My Compaq after about a year did this. However it would only burn DVDs and not CD-RWs etc. Was a laser problem but I only had to return the DVD drive.

In any case you can get a 16x dual layer drive DVD+- / CD drive for about £30.

If you can't be bothered sending it back

[Edited on 01-10-2006 by _Allan_]
John
Member

Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
1st Oct 06 at 17:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Dvd-rws are always burning out.
Don't seem to have very long lifes at all.
Brett
Premium Member

Avatar

Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
2nd Oct 06 at 00:58   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

it does get quite a bit of use

Where can I get one from for £30 Allan
John
Member

Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
2nd Oct 06 at 01:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ebuyer or any local pc shop.
30 is expensive for one these days.
John
Member

Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
2nd Oct 06 at 01:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I was just about to add except pcworld but apparently not.

pcworld

 
New Topic

New Poll

  Related Threads Author Forum Replies Views Last Post
DVD Re-writers? Happy_2008 Geek Day 7 1609
24th Dec 03 at 14:20
by luca2020
 
does any body know how to get a dvd+r disc to play in a separates dvd player... P@UL Geek Day 12 1139
9th Jan 04 at 10:26
by Dave_Gordon
 
DVD-RW & DVD+RW Disks, Whats the Difference? Tidus Geek Day 4 1214
10th Jul 04 at 10:26
by 5door_jon
 
video cameras.... broster Geek Day 17 1673
31st Aug 05 at 21:22
by MikeLamb
 
Making a PC DVD writer drive multi region? Sam Geek Day 2 1209
2nd May 06 at 00:34
by Jules
 

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » DVD-+R/RW 28 database queries in 0.0124969 seconds