Sony dvdrw bargain.......why wont it work!!!

lovebargains

Right grrrrrrrrrr driving me mad here! I bought the sony dvd rw that was on grabbit, sony DWG-120AB2. I installed it easey peasey. I even coppied a sony camcorded dvd I made on the camcorder. Then today thought I would write some data to it grrrrr. When you right click a file, and go to the 'send to' option, I thought the option to send to dvd drive would be there but it isnt. It shows on my computer as a 'cd drive' but then sometimes as a dvd drive. When I installed it I used the default drivers windows offered. I tried using Sonic Record now. No way will it let me burn a data disc, the drive shows up on Sonic, but whatever disc i put in dvd-r and dvd-rw, it wont work.
I assume the proper driver would be best, but cant find this even on the sony site, and it has ram, but gawd knows how I utilise that as I cant find anything to help.
Ever had one of those days...........

wonderfullife_2

Hi
A few things I would check:
Have you checked in the BIOS that its showing and that its enabled?, did you set the jumpers on the back correctly to either slave or master?

Is it showing in Device Manager happily, with no yellow ? sign

If your using xp, when you boot up it usually finds your new hardware, it doesn't usually ask for drivers for dvd drives.
Have you tried burning with another software, like Nero/Roxio

Hope this helps

lovebargains

wonderfullife wrote:

Hi
A few things I would check:
Have you checked in the BIOS that its showing and that its enabled?, did you set the jumpers on the back correctly to either slave or master?

Is it showing in Device Manager happily, with no yellow ? sign

If your using xp, when you boot up it usually finds your new hardware, it doesn't usually ask for drivers for dvd drives.
Have you tried burning with another software, like Nero/Roxio

Hope this helps

Hiya, yes its enabled, it installed fine,its fine in device manager no yellow sign, and it plays dvds fine.I installed it where the dvd drive was and used same cable ect. I will downlaod another burner and try that.Wondering if it is the master slave thing, whatever that is!!!

rogerramjet

If its the one I think you got (bought one myself DVD RAM capability) you will need a DVD RAM disk and have it formated to enable a drag and drop function

wonderfullife_2

lovebargains wrote:

Wondering if it is the master slave thing, whatever that is!!!

On the back of the drive, there are 3 connection settings, slave, master and cable select, look on the back of the old drive that you took out and see what that was set to, then check on your new drive that its set to the same connection. You just need a little pair of tweezers to pull out the little connector if its in the wrong position.

Hope this helps

vgopal

just use nero it will sort out you problem

lovebargains

rogerramjet wrote:

If its the one I think you got (bought one myself DVD RAM capability) you will need a DVD RAM disk and have it formated to enable a drag and drop function

whoooooooooosh, that went straight over my head lol! Please explain

lovebargains

wonderfullife wrote:

On the back of the drive, there are 3 connection settings, slave, master and cable select, look on the back of the old drive that you took out and see what that was set to, then check on your new drive that its set to the same connection. You just need a little pair of tweezers to pull out the little connector if its in the wrong position.

Hope this helps

Elo again, I put the connection back exactly as the other one was. Your all so nice on here :beer:

rogerramjet

lovebargains wrote:

whoooooooooosh, that went straight over my head lol! Please explain

The right click send to option will only usually work on certain drives for example hard drives, USB drives and RAM drives (correct me if I'm wrong :P)

to enable a send to on the Sony drive (I've the same one) you need a DVD RAM disk not a normal DVD r/rw disk. The problem is, even if you have a ram disk you still cannot just send files to it as the disk would need formatting so it can be written to.

Have a check here for more info

http://www.softarch.com/us/products/writedvd.html

raymond

If all else fails RTFM

lovebargains

raymond wrote:

If all else fails RTFM

I would read it, CLD, but TBT came without a BBB manual, it was OEM, REAW CLD.