Pioneer DVR106 1.05 shooting blanks... Help

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JedK11

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I just bought a new Pioneer DVR106 burner. The firmware is 1.05. I tried to backup a DVD using DiscJuggler. The program looks like it's working fine, and when it's finished writing the disk, it ejects it and displays no errors. The problem is the disk is always empty. If you flip the disk over you can see the disk is FULL of data, but my computer, and my DVD player thinks there is no data on the disk. The size is zero.

I then tried DVDXCopy Express. DVDXCopy labels the disk correctly, and shows no errors either, but I have the EXACT same problem. My computer thinks the disk is empty. I tried to install the Adaptec ASPI drivers, but that didn't help.

Vitals:
Disks: Ritek Brand, 4x 4.7GB DVD+R Blank Media
Windows XP Pro. AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz
512MB RAM.
120Gig 7200 WD hard drive


Does anyone have any ideas? I'm going to try DVD-R, but this thing should be able to write DVD+R.

Thanks,
JedK
 
banzibaby

banzibaby

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Do U know if XP's built in burnin engine is disabled??

2 check open my computer & right click Ur burner & on the recordin tab uncheck "use this drive 4 burnin"

Then right click my computer & select manage, then click services & look 4 a service called IMAPI, right click on it & select properties & change the startup 2 disabled, then try burnin again, bnut use a rw if U got 1

Hope it helps:)

BaNzI:D
 
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JedK11

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I just read that in another thread. It was set to manual. I just disabled that. What will disabling that do?

It didn't ask me to reboot when I changed that. Do you think I need to reboot?

Thanks,
JedK1
 
banzibaby

banzibaby

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All disablin it does it stops it from loadin & stops U usin XP burn 2 disc feature which isnt up 2 much anyway

I would reboot as that will switch it off

A friend had the same prob with her cd burner, tried burnin a disc, disc made but says nothin on it, disabled the IMAPI servive & the contents of the cd were displayed

The IMAPI eninge is supplied by roxio who have a rep 4 software that can screw with other burnin progs, that why here we call it easy cd kremator lol

BaNzI:D
 
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JedK11

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I disabled the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service, and rebooted my machine. I checked to make sure it was still disabled, and tried writing another DVD using Disk Juggler.

Still the same result. That's disk number 6 that I trashed. So that didn't work. This is DVD Burning, not CD Burning. Maybe that COM object isn't used for DVD burning.

I saw a post about DMA. Can that have something to do with it?
Another program that is running on my box is Norton Antivirus. Maybe that's a problem. I'm ready to throw the thing out the window.

Any other ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the try,
JedK
 
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banzibaby

banzibaby

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Well i always diable my antivirus when burnin cd's, just 2 be on the safe side as i know all the files im burnin are ok

2 get the most out of Ur burner it will need 2 use DMA mode, best way 2 do it is get the latest chipset drivers 4 Ur motherboard & then in XP right click my computer & slect manage & then device manager, what U are lookin 4 is not Ur drives, but the ide controllers, there will be 3 of them the IDE controller & the primary & secondery, it the pimary & secondery ones U want, select 1 & them click advanced tab & make sure it says it usin DMA & not PIO, do the same with the secondery IDE & rebbot 2 be sure, sometimes XP loses these settings :)

BaNzI:D
 
bertieg

bertieg

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Could be a media problem had something similar with some dvd-r media that I tried.It looked like it burnt ok but wasnt readable in pc or dvd player tried some more expensive discs and they worked fine.Give the -r media a try.
 
ipdave

ipdave

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I have a 106, 105 and 104. All burn fine in XP with Nero 5.5.10.xx, Burnatonce, and other sw.

Try Burnatonce
 
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JedK11

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Thanks to All who answered my questions.

I finally got it working.

First I tried DVDXCopy Express. That didn't work with my Burner, and media. I emailed Padus, but they never replied.

I tried DiskJuggler, and that didn't work at all.

Then I tried Nero 6.0.0.15. That burned the DVD but I couldn't play it on my Sony DVD Player. I was using PowerDVD to play it.

Then I uninstalled PowerDVD, and installed WinDVD. I relized I was running version 4.01 of DiscJuggler, so I upgraded to 4.10. I think those two things together got it working for me. Especially the upgrade of DiscJuggler.

Now it all works, but I do want to see if I can get DVDXCopy working. That's a simpler solution the SmartRipper-IfoEdit-DiscJuggler. I''ll try DVD-R instead of DVD+R to see if that works.

Just for some info. I did have DMA set for the drive as the default, and I didn't need to disable Norton Anti Virus.

I mayl try BurnAtOne, as ipDave suggests. See how that works.

Thanks,
JedK
 
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