Burned DVD readable only in burner

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Thanh-BKK

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Hello :)

I've got a little problem here. Yesterday i bought and installed a DVD burner and burned a data-DVD. Now this burned DVD runs fine in the burner drive, yet trying to run it in my other DVD drive, it is not recognised. The error message says "The media may be corrupt or incompatible format".

My information:

OS: Windows XP SP 2
Nero 5.5.10.56 which works absolutely perfect with CD's
Medium: PRINCO DVD-R (these are recommended by the drive manufacturer!)
Burner: Lite-On DVDRW-SOHW-812S (Master IDE 2)
Drive: ASUS DVD E616-P (Slave IDE 1)

I burned the DVD at 4x and the source of the data (mp3 files) was the HDD.

How can i solve this problem? (The ASUS drive reads other burned DVD's on PRINCO disks without problem, so it must be a "burning" issue)

Kind regards......

Thanh
 
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Thanh-BKK said:
Hello :)

I've got a little problem here. Yesterday i bought and installed a DVD burner and burned a data-DVD. Now this burned DVD runs fine in the burner drive, yet trying to run it in my other DVD drive, it is not recognised. The error message says "The media may be corrupt or incompatible format".

My information:

OS: Windows XP SP 2
Nero 5.5.10.56 which works absolutely perfect with CD's
Medium: PRINCO DVD-R (these are recommended by the drive manufacturer!)
Burner: Lite-On DVDRW-SOHW-812S (Master IDE 2)
Drive: ASUS DVD E616-P (Slave IDE 1)

I burned the DVD at 4x and the source of the data (mp3 files) was the HDD.

How can i solve this problem? (The ASUS drive reads other burned DVD's on PRINCO disks without problem, so it must be a "burning" issue)

Kind regards......

Thanh
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MY guess is that you wrote the disk as a multi-session or open disk for more data to be reburned try adding more files to the disk and making sure you close the disk after adding :)

more often than not MULTI-SESSION burned dvd disks will not work in any other drive than the burner drive it was burned in :(

most of us here AVOID burning a multisession DVD and just fill it as much as possible then burn with a closed session or complete burn :)
 
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Thanh-BKK

New member
closed DVD.....

Hello :)

Thank you very much for reply. I should have mentioned that before, but i have made sure that the disk will NOT be a "multi session" since i never planned to add further files. In fact i burned two DVD's and both of them are completely filled with data.

Here is the exact error message that comes up when i try to read either disk in the non-writer drive:

"Windows can not read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows"

I did yet not have a chance to test them in a standalone DVD player since i do not have one. The disks are meant to be played in a standalone player that can handle mp3 files and works well with CD's that contain folders with mp3 files. It is for a colleague of mine.

However this error reminds me of several "dodgy" DVD's which i own, bootlegged DVD's they are. They won't play in any application and a similar error will show:

"A disk with an unsupported format is in drive H:"

Each one of those will play perfectly in a standalone player, yet neither of my two drives will read it, the non-writer drive bringing above error message and the writer even crashing, which requires a reboot to get the disk out of the drive.

Is there another burner software, freeware at best, which i could try? I already have "BurnAtOnce" but i don't know if it can handle DVD's. I only want to burn data DVD's, i believe to just copy a movie DVD Nero will be fine... or am i wrong?

I am thankfull for any advise since i am quite a newbie in terms of "DVD burning".

Kind regards.....

your Thanh
 
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Thanh-BKK

New member
add-on....

Hello :)

Just a little add-on: The first of the two mentioned DVD's runs perfectly in the standalone player, while the second one also there is not detected ("No Disc"). I burned the second one again, and came across a message saying that several of the files had to be renamed, because their name was too long. In tyhe first time, i had Nero handle that. This time i did it myself in the origin folder, and then started Nero again, this time it burned without any such message.

Result: The second version of the second DVD not only runs perfectly in the standalone player, but ALSO in my non-writer drive!

Same medium (Princo), same burn speed.

Crazy...........

Kind regards.....

your Thanh
 
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