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Do You Know Your CD or DVD Drive Burning Capabilities?

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Apr
8
2008

Most newer computers are now equipped with at least a DVD drive because it is getting cheaper and also a lot of games and software comes in DVD instead of CD. Both my laptop and desktop PC is equipped with a DVD burner that supports burning double layer (DL) DVD disc. My boss gave me Mac OS X Leopard DVD disc and ask me to make a copy for backup purposes. He also informed me to use double layer DVD disc to burn. I went to a computer shop and bought two DVD-R DL disc in case one if it fails to burn, at least I still have another one to try before going to shop and buy more DVD-R DL discs.

I use Nero’s DVD Copy on my laptop to try to duplicate the Apple Mac OS X Leopard DVD. After finished caching the files in my hard drive, I put in the new DVD-R DL disc. It took a while for Nero check the disc and then the drive automatically ejects with the following window:
Nero Waiting for Disc
I can’t believe that the recorder detected the disc as CD-ROM instead of DVD-R DL. I then tried using my desktop DVD burner on both disc and also got the same error!

Suddenly it struck me that there are different standards for DVD disc which is +R and -R. I know for sure that my DVD drive can burn dvd double layer disc but not sure if it can support both +R and -R. I use this tool to check my DVD drive burning capabilities.


Nero InfoTool is a free and portable tool that provides information about the most important features of installed drives, inserted discs, installed software, and much more. At the drive tab, it clearly shows that my DVD recorder doesn’t support writing to DVD -R DL disc. So coincidentally both my laptop and desktop dvd recorder doesn’t support writing DVD -R DL disc.

Download Free Nero InfoTool

Because I was careless and thought that my DVD recorder can support reading and writing all double layer disc, I wasted money on the disc that cannot be used on my drive. Double Layer DVD disc are not cheap and luckily I only bought 2, not 10 or 100. I guess it’s better you know your DVD drive burning capabilities using Nero InfoTool before you buy the wrong disc which is not supported by your CD/DVD recorder.

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    • black2

      thanks for telling.
      my drive can read and write DVD -RL. :)

      hmm, my DVD writer show
      \”[0.1] D:\\ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P\”

      I don\’t know whats that mean ATAPI?.

    • Shuvra

      one thing i still don\’t understand… why cant these DAMNed drive manufacturers support all possible formats!
      And if they don\’t then why not specify in bold what they don\’t support!

    • Blackrose

      Thanks Ray, I have spent around 20 dollars for buying DVDS. I often get the same error. Now I can solve this problem.

      I knew that some DVD Writers does not support +/- formats. But never asked why and spent money on this. Its very costly. Thanks to you, this I can overcome.

      Many of my friends also have this problem now, problem solved. I will share with my friends.

    • Fabian23

      i agree with Shuvra……………….if they can make it read a format then they can make it write also

    • webcadre

      i had the same problem before ray, but that did`nt solve my problem i know that my laptop support dL disk but that did`nt burn my osx leopard to create a buck-up, instead i burn it to my mac then i copy the burned disk (that i created in mac) to my pc to create another back-up then it copied,

      hope i help…..

      thanks!

    • seraphimcall

      for those who confused about DVD quality either generic DVD or branded, i suggest using DVD Identifier (just search on goggle) to identify your DVD’s manufacturer coz there’s also alot of fakes/imatations DVD… :)

    • Qwerty Kickurass

      i tried testing this tool but it gave me error after i select my other ROM drive. not good for multiple drive i might say

    • Eugene

      Thanks for information…Might save me some money in the future :-)

    • http://technokia.com/nokia-tube-5800-specifications/11/04/2008/ Sravan

      Very nice article dude

    • Ray

      How’d you bypass the “This disc is copyrighted.” statement?

    • Arakaki

      Nice post. found it googling around

    • sami

      problam fonction trompon

    • perry

      Thanks I knew my drive couldn’t burn but my girlfriend(who thinks she knows computers better than me) says that it used to. Now I proved her wrong but she still won’t admit she was wrong thanks though.

    • Vijay

      Thanks for the info. My DVD Burner can read/write DVD DL

    • Sachit

      Thnxx Alot

    • Sachit

      hey
      there is a problem
      my drive is compatible but it still shows it as CD Drive

    • Indian

      Thanks Man U r Genius Stay Cool

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