DVD-RW (E:) Problem Options

[Redd]

I've tried so many places, tried so many ways to get it... nothing is working.

I've been trying to burn some of my family videos for my family on my PC (Windows XP, SP3, emachines) but lately, it hasn't been working.
Whenever I do not have a disc in, it displays perfectly fine, with all of the correct info.
However, when I put a blank disc in, it says that it is a CD Drive (Not DVD-RW anymore) and refuses to read the disc. It says that there are 0 bytes of free space and that the total disc is zero bytes of space. This happens with both DVD-R and DVD+R discs from Sony and Memorex, respectively.
When I insert some DVD-R discs containing Wii iso files I backed up a while back (my Wii was on the fritz and was randomly ruining games), the same thing happens. The drive actually attempts to read it, it seems, but nothing is shown on the disc.
When I insert a DVD+R disc, everything is perfectly fine. The drive can read it perfectly. The one I put inside also has some Wii iso games backed up on it, but the Wii cannot read + discs, only - ones.
Keep in mind that I burned all of these discs with the computer and drive that has the problem currently.

IMGBurn realizes that there is a disc in the drive, but when I try to burn something onto it, it corrupts the disc.
I have tried multiple ways to fix this, including uninstalling the drive and letting Windows reinstall it, removing some things and then removing the drive and letting Windows reinstall it... I'm getting nothing.

Any of you guys think you might be able to help me out here?

[X-M-O]

Try reading the disc on another computer (a friend's or someone else that you can request to temporarily use their machine).
If it doesn't load one or the other, then the disc has been corrupted (or they are having the same problem, which is highly unlikely) and is probably unusable. =\

My recommendation from now until eternity something better is invented, is to use something other than discs to store data (such as USB drives, which can be used to communicate to almost all devices nowadays, including the Wii system).

[Klokinator]

Also, imgburn is an extremely reliable program. If you're having troubles with it, that probably means that the issue is not the discs or the program, but the disk drive itself. Some drives don't write correctly to the - format so uh, probably need to buy a - format writer. I can't think of anything else, aside from transferring the files via a usb drive to another pc with a dvd/cd burner and using that instead.

[Redd]

I was writing - discs perfectly fine before just barely. Note that + discs aren't working either, I can only read ones that have things on them.
I think my drive is the thing that's broken. I'll test it out on another computer soon.

Discs are just a lot cheaper. It's like 50 cents for one 4.7 gb one, while a 2gb flash drive is, the lowest I've seen, $4. Plus you look like a weirdo with a whole bunch of flash drives that have one game each on them xD
I realize that the bigger you get, the less money it is in the long run, but 50 DVD-R discs cost me $25. That's approx 235 GB of storage. How much is a USB drive with that much? A LOT MORE XD Plus, for my purposes, I don't need to be constantly deleting and changing stuff.

[Klokinator]

Or you could buy a hard drive for about $90 and get 1-2TB which is practically unlimited for a casual user and never ever need discs again. I know I don't!

[Rukiri]

You shouldn't need to create family moments on DVDs/Blu-rays in the modern age, all you need is a very reliable external hard drive. I'd go with Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 as they're going to be around for quite some time.

Your issue is with drivers, is your PC capable of running Windows 7? (I'd skip 8 if you want to watch DVDs/Blu-rays... VLC is borked at the moment and won't play any DVDs even on Windows 7, VLC 1X is still the way to go. )

Even if it's not aero capable you can still use the classic theme or find a XP royal blue theme that uses the classic theme (it essentially XP but upgraded)

Also, pop in a Ubuntu LiveDVD and see if it'll read any disk if it does it's a driver issue, if not.. than buy a Blu-ray RW drive.

I have plenty of Family DVDs dating back to the 80s, which essentially we converted old beta video camera footage to DVD, we did this long before OS X was available it was around 1994-1995 during the Mac OS Classic era ( still like the platinum UI, aqua is great though and a modern replacement)

About video editing I'd recommend Lightworks over any Free Video Editor out there or unless you get a mac and purchase Final Cut Pro X(everything that was gone has been added back from Final Cut Pro 7, a 30 year old video veteran called it the best available Video Editor on the market) I like it personally, I haven't used it since the original launch and don't have a mac and won't until this summer when A the 2013 mac pro refresh is launched or B I build a hackintosh pro.



This post has been edited by Rukiri: Mar 13 2013, 08:31 PM

[Klokinator]

VLC recently got fucked up by an update and not only won't play DVD's, it also won't play certain compressed MP4 fiules even though it could in the past. I'm having to use MPC and it's killing me >:|

[Rukiri]

VLC recently got fucked up by an update and not only won't play DVD's, it also won't play certain compressed MP4 fiules even though it could in the past. I'm having to use MPC and it's killing me >:|

VLC has not been able to play DVDs/Blu-rays since early 2.0 and no version since than has been able to. Media Player Classic runs horribly in Windows 8, have not tried gom though but Windows Media player actually is all you need for playing DVDs but you need Win8PRo plus a purchased upgrade which I think is outlandish...


Hopefully by the next VLC update it's fixed I liked it.