DVD Rom drive on laptop playing up please help

Tomtom07

I have been trying to get my Dvd rom drive on my laptop to read data dvds that I have burnt in the past and it does not seem to be reading them(though I can still burn onto blank disks), bought disks are not a problem, it only seems to be the blank ones that have data burn onto them, could there be any reason for this????

busenbust

I have been trying to get my Dvd rom drive on my laptop to read data dvds that I have burnt in the past

Not wanting to be pedantic but what of now...if you burn a disc with data presently, does it read OK?

Could you perhaps try an alternative media subset - DVD -R, DVD -RW, DVD +R, DVD +RW, DVD -RAM - if your player is able to play/read.

Tomtom07

busenbust wrote: »

Not wanting to be pedantic but what of now...if you burn a disc with data presently, does it read OK?

Could you perhaps try an alternative media subset - DVD -R, DVD -RW, DVD +R, DVD +RW, DVD -RAM - if your player is able to play/read.

Nope any Dvds I've burnt recently, will still not be read once burnt,have tried in friends laptop and they read fine and the data is fine, dvd drive just doesn't seem to read the disk.

I'm very confused!!!

Niv

did you burn them in the past on that pc with the same burning software you have now? Sometimes when you burn data you can leave it 'open ended' (forget teh proper term) so you can add more later but this often prevents you reading the data with different software until it has been 'finalised'.

Niv

Have you tried updating the drivers for your dvd rom drive?

Tomtom07

Niv wrote: »

did you burn them in the past on that pc with the same burning software you have now? Sometimes when you burn data you can leave it 'open ended' (forget teh proper term) so you can add more later but this often prevents you reading the data with different software until it has been 'finalised'.

Same softwear, same pc,same settings nothings changed in 2 years

Niv wrote: »

Have you tried updating the drivers for your dvd rom drive?

Checked and fully updated

busenbust

Tomtom07 wrote: »

Nope any Dvds I've burnt recently, will still not be read once burnt,have tried in friends laptop and they read fine and the data is fine, dvd drive just doesn't seem to read the disk.

I'm very confused!!!

Same problem with cd-r, cd-rw ?

Niv

mmm, this is an annoying one. Do you pick the fastest burn option or a low burn option? I know I always pick a slower option as I 'believe' (maybe incorrectly) that the data is burned deeper, maybe complete old wifes tale (or old computer geeks tail!) but it would kind of account for the purchased ones working but the home burned ones not.

Tomtom07

busenbust wrote: »

Same problem with cd-r, cd-rw ?

Same problem with Cd-r

Niv wrote: »

mmm, this is an annoying one. Do you pick the fastest burn option or a low burn option? I know I always pick a slower option as I 'believe' (maybe incorrectly) that the data is burned deeper, maybe complete old wifes tale (or old computer geeks tail!) but it would kind of account for the purchased ones working but the home burned ones not.

Always do it on the slow burn option (I've heard the computer geeks tail too)


I've just burnt a mp3 data dvd, tried it on here again and the drive is having none of it, put the same disk in dvd player and all files are there and playing, also just made a dvd of home movies and that plays fine in the dvd player but not on pc! argh!!!!!

kwikbreaks

This sounds to me like one of those problems you fix with a credit card....

Tomtom07

kwikbreaks wrote: »

This sounds to me like one of those problems you fix with a credit card....

Thats what I'm thinking

No offence I won't click Thanks as thats the last thing I wanted to hear lol :rotfl: