i want to burn it to dvd i put the disk in DVD+RW i press burn and it just keeps telling me to put a disk in whats going on?ive just gone into my computer and under devices and removable storage it says (DVD/CD-RW Drive (D:) i click on it and the folder or whatever this is comes up blank does this mean i dont have a DVD RW drive ?
2006-10-25 23:54:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
It could be that you just have a DVD reader, not writer. Right click on the drive, go properties, then Hardware, it should tell you there whether it's a ROM, RAM, or RW. RAM or RW are burners, ROM is just the reader.
If you're still unsure, post the model# on here and I can tell you.
2006-10-26 00:00:02 · answer #1 · answered by I H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may well find that what you have is a combo drive, which consists of a DVD-ROM (player) and CD-RW (writer).
If that's the case, I'm afraid the only thing you can do is purchase a DVD-R/DVD-RW (this seems to be more popular than DVD+R/DVD+RW, and you may well find that your home DVD player doesn't play the +R format. Having said that, most, if not all of recent DVD writers are multi-format, will write to both +R and -R format disks.)
Alternatively, if you use a program such as DVDShrink, you'll be able to write VCD or SVCD disks using the writer that you currently have.
2006-10-26 07:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋