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Wade Kilpatrick
07-22-2007, 11:41 PM
I have 2 DVD-RW Internal Drives that are not recognzing blank DVD's when I put them in. It recognizes a disc, but it's coming up as a CD-R disc when it's really a DVD-R disc thats in it. I have tried firmware updates, uninstalling and reinstalling and various types of blank media.

Anyone have any suggestions? Are they both shot?
S_Gibson
07-23-2007, 12:17 AM
Bad disc? I've had a spool of disc where only a few out of the entire spool worked.
GoMatt17
07-23-2007, 07:12 AM
I've had the same experiences as Gib. Probably just a bad disc.
NolanRyan32
07-23-2007, 10:00 AM
Same thing happened to me just last week. Bought a spindle of 100 and out of the first 30 I burned, 4 were good.

Could be brand, could be bad disc, I won't buy that brand again though just to be on the safe side.
Wade Kilpatrick
07-23-2007, 10:01 AM
Well I thought for sure a Memorex DVD would work with a Memorex Drive.
Mike Henry Jr
07-23-2007, 10:10 AM
Same thing happened to me just last week. Bought a spindle of 100 and out of the first 30 I burned, 4 were good.

Could be brand, could be bad disc, I won't buy that brand again though just to be on the safe side.

yeah, i bought like 30 one time and all of them were no good.
S_Gibson
07-23-2007, 10:14 AM
It was either Memorex or TDK that I had bad disc on. I exchanged them and I still buy those brands. I figured I just got a bad batch that time.
Mike Henry Jr
07-23-2007, 10:21 AM
It was either Memorex or TDK that I had bad disc on. I exchanged them and I still buy those brands. I figured I just got a bad batch that time.

yeah i got my bad batch when i first started buring cd's, i made the mistake of getting the cheapest brand :lol: got what i paid for.
NolanRyan32
07-23-2007, 10:28 AM
Good read for those buying blank media:

http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm

I use this guide religiously now after the run in I had with my bad media.