My drives don't recognise my DVD-R OR +R disks

John

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I have 2 sony drives on my computer - a SONY CD-RW CRX230ED and SONY CD-RW CRX320E. I am trying to burn DVD and I have tried SONY DVD-R & SONY DVD+R 8X disks, but neither drive recognises the DVD disks, although they recognise TDK CD-R80 disks. I have used various software to try and burn movies I have downloaded - I have run these movies through VSO DIVX TO DVD,then used DVD Shrink and then am using DVD Decrypoter to burn, and have used other burning software but each time I am told the disk I have entered is not a writablke medium of the medium is not present. Is there a problem with these drives? i.e. I tyake it one of these drives should allow me to burn DVDs (that is what I aksed for when I bought the PC) Should I be able to burn DVDs on these drives and if so am I using the wrong disks? If so which disks do I need?

ANY HELP PLEASE??

thanks

jensonclio

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them drives m8 sound like cdrw drives not dvd-+ rw drives m8

jensonclio

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u need a dvd writer 2 burn onto dvd- or + disc m8

John

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Damn - just looked up the spec for the drive I thought was a DVD writer drive and it says “Sony brings the best of both worlds together with the new CRX320E CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. The new CRX320E combines high performance 52X max. CD-R and 24X max. CD-RW burning and 16X max. DVD-ROM reading capabilities into a standard half-height PC compatible drive. CD-R/RW burning is fast and reliable thanks to the built in buffer underrun protection. It is an ideal drive for those who have limited drive bays in their PC but want to add high performance CD burning and DVD-ROM reading to their systems. ". So does this mean I can burn CDs but can only play DVDs? If so ******

Which is the best DVD drive to go for that will allow me to burn DVDs. Thanks

jensonclio

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hi john i use a pionner dvr109 and have had no problems what so ever but the preference is upto u all i would say is get a well known make like
pioneer
sony
plextor

people swear by plextor they are extreamly good drives and not really that expensive

i personelly would go for pioneer but choice is totally urs m8

good luck i chosing 1

hope this helps m8ee

Jonty

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jensonclio. Thanks for your help with this. My computer is only a couple of months old so don’t want to start removing drives as might affect warranty? So think I might go for an external drive. Any recommendations? I have bought 8X speed DVD-R & dvd+r disks so does that mean I need to stick to an 8x speed writer drive, as some of the ones I have looked at are 16x speed ones. As you can tell I am a novice at this stuff so any advice is appreciated

thanks

jensonclio

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no you can buy any speed writer its just it will only burn at your writers max speed
if your gonna buy an external then just buy a reconised name pioneer/plexter/sony all shound work fine but i would buy a + and a - writer all in 1 then u can use dvd-r or dvd+r disc
hope this helps m8ee

Rob

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I just bought a sony DVD+-R drive. When I burn a DVD there is not any audio. What am I doing wrong?