I stiII have no success burning DVD-Rs, even though I have successfully burned a DVD-RW (a movie). Burning CD-Rs and CD-RWs, along with the DVD-RW mentioned, has been fine. I keep getting a “media write error” when I burn DVD-Rs (early in the process and up to 98%). I have done all the usual troubleshooting (i.e. different media, lower burn speed, diff. software, uninstall/reinstall, etc…). I have tried copying DVD to DVD (uncopyrighted material) and burning from my hard drive – nothing works.
These are my laptop specs:
- AMD Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) processor,
- 256 MB RAM,
- 20GB hard drive with 5GB hard drive space (on C drive) to work with (I am able to copy a DVD to my hard drive with no problems).
Are these specs just not enough to work with to burn a DVD? (these are the minimum requirements listed for my external DVD burner). Does anyone know what the error message means? Is there anything left to try before I give up? Thanks :)
2007-01-17 08:34:49 · 5 answers · asked by TechNewbie 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Based on what you are saying, you've ruled out most of the things I would have said. The thought occurs to me that perhaps you need some additional RAM to keep the buffer from running dry as you're writing to the DVD. Something similar happened with my setup, on a desktop, which was running with 512 RAM, so I added a stick of 512 bringing it up to a Gig. From that point on the write process went smoothly. RAM isn't all that expensive anymore, so you might try adding some. Hope this helps.
2007-01-17 08:45:58 · answer #1 · answered by Jolly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the DVD-R burning part of the burner has a hardware problem. Try another burner to make sure it isn't a computer problem.
2007-01-17 08:44:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure it supports DVD-R, just because it supports DVD-RW, doesn't mean it will.
2007-01-17 10:57:06 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-17 08:44:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do u have a shrinker?? i know for sure u need a shrinker to burn dvd to dvd.. idk but if u dont u can get one at http://downloads.com
2007-01-17 08:39:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋