When I try to burn a dvd my burner wont reconice any blank dvd but it will burn cds and it will play dvd movi?

Question

Ive burned dvds before and my drive is a HL-DT-ST dvd + - RW gwa4164b. I looked in hardware settings and it says everything is working fine. Ive tried dvd-rw and dvd+rw blank disks.

everytime i try to load a dvd it says medium not present

Answer 1

What program are You using to burn Your DVD's? A good site that may help You more is afterdawn.com Check it out....good luck!!

Answer 2

since your burner is burning cds,that means you have a burning software,i suggest that you change the medium(dvd roms)eg.lets say you using TDK dvd rom,you can change it to let say MEMEREX dvd rom and so on,if this dont work then you need a firmware upgrade for the burner to do this you'll need the manufacturer of the burner and also the modle # ,what i suggest in doing this get someone who knows about it cause if you make a mistake then thats it,the drive is of no good,so please take care and get someone who really knows about computer like a technician.

hope this is of help

Answer 3

u need a burning prog 2 burn dvds. the other is CHECK UR DVD BURNER IF IT HAS a + or - once u do that buy the dvd disc that matches either + or - that ur dvd has the must match.

Answer 4

sounds like you need to reinstall you dvd rom drivers. if you bought the dvd burner afterwards and installed it you should have he cd if not it's probably on your system recovery cd

Answer 5

Use a cleaning disk. Try again. Make sure it's not copy protected material.

Answer 6

you may need to use a diferent software, i burn a new burning one of the later model.

Answer 7

check the speed, always do one below the top speed, i dont know why but that seems to work.

Answer 8

please update the firmware from manufacturres website