Having Trouble With D Drive

kah22

Hi guys I'm having trouble with my d drive. Here's the problem.

i insert a blank Maxwell DVD-R into my laptops d drive, go to my computer, and click on the d drive, a message pops up reading 'please insert a disk into drive d:' I've tried three or four disks from the same reel with no joy.

Earlier in the day I was transferring some music on a commercially pre-recorded cd onto my ipod and there was no difficulty there, the operation ran smoothly, the drive was recognized.

I'm attempting to load some photos I have on a memory pen onto cd, any advice?

Kevin

KillerWatt

If you are inserting a blank disc and then trying to open it, you will get that error message.

You need to open the drive that has the data you want and then copy to the CD drive from there

closed

Use burning software

http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5

kah22

Thanks for the responses guys: but still no joy. The computer is still coming up with the 'please insert a disk' message.

Can't figure out why it would recognize and play a music disk but not recognize that there is a disk in the machine.

I have tried turning the computer on and off, and I've also tried with other blank disks.

closed

What operating system, have you tried burning software. Is it a writer, have you ever written a dvd before?

Lil306

OK, I want to go through a few steps here....

First, what's the exact make of your DVD drive, it may only be a DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Open Device Manager by going Start - Run - DevMgmt.msc - Open DVD-ROM drives and make a note of them in here

Secondly, if you're trying to burn a DVD with Windows XP built in burner don't bother, it's only capable of burning CD's not DVD's use something like Deepburner instead.

Thirdly, sometimes when it's not reading the disk, you have to insert it, then right-click on the drive and under one of the options there is a box which says "enable recording on this drive", that sometimes gets around the "please insert disc" message...

We need to know the make of your DVD Reader / Writer, before we go anywhere first, it may not even be capable of DVD burning

st999

And it might even be a DVD+R drive.

Stan

Lil306

st999 wrote: »

And it might even be a DVD+R drive.

Stan

Spot on, I knew there was something I missed off, DVD+R and DVD-R are two differnet formats. Found that one out myself when I tried to burn a +R

Marcusp

another question.

Have you ever done what you are trying to do or is this the first time?

tronator

kah22 wrote: »

Thanks for the responses guys: but still no joy. The computer is still coming up with the 'please insert a disk' message.

Can't figure out why it would recognize and play a music disk but not recognize that there is a disk in the machine.

I have tried turning the computer on and off, and I've also tried with other blank disks.

Because the disc is EMPTY! What do you expect to see on an empty disc?

Run Infrarecorder which you just installed, I think. Then follow these instructions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjqbA8yEs-I

kah22

Ah found the problem - when I right clicked the drive and went top Properties and opened Recording I discovered that the 'Enable CD Recording To This Drive' option had been deselected. Re-selected it and everything is fine.:j. But thanks anyway guys for the advice and offer of help. It really is a great community here.

As a by-the-way the laptop is on its last leg, but I've no complaints I bought in 2004 with a big 55 G disk and now it's completely stuffed!!
I hope to buy a new laptop within the next two weeks and I'm looking at the Acer Aspire 5740 and the 5740G

Again many thanks

Kevin