- #MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT MOVIE#
- #MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT INSTALL#
- #MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT DRIVER#
- #MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT SOFTWARE#
#MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT SOFTWARE#
I really doubt this will help you, as I now believe that you must have the proper software in order for your other DVD drive to work. I'm not sure if there might be an incompatibility there. Seeing as how you have the codecs on your system that your other drive has to use, then the not-working drive should use that too. I apologize Steven for throwing that possibility out, even though it wasn't exactly the laser. While looking for pages that are related to this issue, I came across a particular post where some DVD burners/players have a CD head and a DVD head. Ok, I've done some more research and have given it some thought. > Re: DVD Burner Reads CDs, but Doesn't Read/Write DVDs anymore:-[ By the way, did the other computer you installed it on have a DVD burner already or just a CD burner/ROM? What happened to that software might be a mystery, but it definitely sounds like that is what the problem is. Obviously, if it can read CD's well, then nothing is obstructing the laser. If it is reading CD's and not DVD's, then it is missing the software it needs to process MPEG 4 and DivX. (Hence this is how we fit so much more information on the same amount of area.) Anyway, we know that if there is only one laser and it fails, then it won't read anything. (There is no DVD portion of the laser.) The DVD laser is smaller and the information on a DVD disk is also smaller. īasically, there is only one laser in a DVD or CD drive. Here is the link to the exact information about the laser. I didn't think it was, but I checked out that site to make sure. Reads 100% fine though, quite nicely actually.It's not the laser. Is there a special cable I didn't see I need to connect to the optical from the motherboard for the burning capability? 'cause it won't burn CDs either. You don't need a disc and the drive will just show up if you have a burner.
#MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT INSTALL#
You'll see what I mean if you download and install the program Burn4Free. I have re-installed the software quite a few times in attempt to fix it with reboots and all. I tried to modify the ini to the drive letter that Windows sees for it but there was nothing in there. Same time as the CPU/GPU and everything else. But I tried firing up the burning software to make my discs but I ended up having to move the 22 GB of data to laptop to burn onto 6 x DVDs, and it seems the drive I have in my beast desktop just doesn't want to burn stuff.ĭrive was fully installed in terms of hardware long before even windows was installed.
#MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT DRIVER#
So I never really noticed burning didn't work because I used the drive just fine to read, install driver CDs and grab data of CDs and DVDs with no problem.
#MEMOREX DVD WRITER WON'T READ DISC THAT CAME WITH IT MOVIE#
I burned a few times since I got it but coincidentally used my laptop since that is where my DVD movie burning software is (different than my data and image burning software). I got a good deal for a standard Asus optical drive that reads and write CDs and DVDs, figured that would work just fine. Well it is my very first custom built desktop, that I put together myself. If not I'll want to get an external optical drive but I don't want to spend money if I don't have to. Dropdown menu for selecting drive is empty of choices, blank. Seems to have no issue with this at all, but when I open the burning software, same program I've always used for several years that is on my laptop, it shows "Drive letter: " and doesn't show the various disc types and capacities like it does on my laptop and refuses to let me burn anything. On the desktop, the DVD can be formatted/opened/viewed whether it is blank or not, shows 4.38GB/4.38GB free for example on a blank memorex. All this time I've been using my laptop to burn DVDs/CDs but I'm finding it inconvenient now to move data from my main rig to my laptop just to burn the data to the discs. It has always installed CDs and read my data DVDs and such just fine so I never noticed any problems, until recently that is.
About 18 months ago I bought this optical drive brand new for my desktop: