PC recognising a blank dvd as a blank cd

hobo123

Hi

Looking for some help please I am trying to burn movies to dvd have done so on many occasions with no problems however it has stopped working. The only thing I can see is when I put a blank dvd in it seems to be recognised as a blank cd - would this be the problem and is there any way to fix it?

Thanks for any help not very good with computers!

davetrousers

Use ImgBurn to write cds/dvds

Mister_aaa

Try playing a normal DVD in it, if it stutters, there may be a problem with the drive being recognised as a DVD drive. If this is the case, do the following;

If you are in XP, go to Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.

Select properties of both of the Secondary IDE channels, and click details, under Bus Relations, check which is your CD/DVD player.

When you find which one it is, click advanced settings and see if it set to PIO only, if it is, it means it has errored a certain number of times, and is restricted to the speed it will transfer data. Cancel that window, and right click on the relevant secondary IDE channel, uninstall, then reboot. It will then re-install the IDE channel with the correct settings.

It took me ages to figure this one out when my DVD player was skipping and not playing correctly. And it saves you buying a new DVD player for your PC when you don't need to.

Don't know how to do this for vista, so someone may be able to help you on this.

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hobo123

Thanks for your help I have played a dvd on it and it plays fine, in my computer it is recognised as a dvd-rw drive but it only recognises the blank dvds as audio cds and I am assuming this is the problem when it comes to burning movies onto it.

thanks

hobo123

Sorry one more thing when I put the blank disc in it changes from a dvd drive to cd drive on My computer

thanks

jackthenipper

Try right clicking on the drive with the disc in then click on properties, then make sure you have a recording tab then also make sure the box is ticked for enable cd recording on this drive then apply then ok. HTH

bob_a_builder

I just had a similar problem yesterday, right after doing a Windows XP re-install ( no new hardware)
found a similar suggestion to above "then make sure you have a recording tab then also make sure the box is ticked for enable cd recording on this drive then apply then ok." elsewhere on the web,
but mine was already ticked - but unticking it, applying and then re-ticking it and applying seem to do the trick

thor

This has happened to me as well. I used my dvd recorder to burn thouands of dvds but it then began to mis-identify dvd discs as cds. It only happened intermittantly initially but got worse until the recorder became unuseable. Changing it with another dvd recorder was the solution for me. It could be your drive is worn out.

Taffybiker

It may be worth trying a cleaning disc. Sometimes the laser becomes fogged and although it can see the relatively wide tracks of a CD it is not so lucky with the more complex arrangement of DVD discs.

hobo123

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, I eventually got it working, I tried 7 different discs of 3 different brands (all brands I had used before) and all doing the same thing so almost at breaking point with it I got a new disc from someone (the same brand as one of mine) and it worked can't believe it! been trying to sort it for ages

Anyway thanks again for all the help