I wanted to put some movie files on DVD's. It's your standard DVD-R, but I'm wondering if I might have jumped the gun buying a whole package of them. My computer is an HP Pavilion 503x with a built in ATAPI CDRW 52X32 cd writer. I'm not looking to make DVD movies but just to burn them as files onto the disk. I'm wondering if my drive is able to do this, or if I may have to go out and buy a DVD writer.
2007-10-09 10:13:42 · 6 answers · asked by T.K. 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
no, unfortunately, your gonna need a dvd writer.
2007-10-09 10:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by Geekyness. 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can't do that. Its physically impossible.
A dvd burner has a different kind of laser in the device that shoots out a different wavelength and intensity of light than the cd recorder you have. CD recorders go wobble wobble wobble with big waves, and dvd burners go pew pew pew with skinny waves. Trying to get the cd writer to go pew pew pew will not work since it only speeks in wobble speak.
You need to buy a dvd writing drive. There's no software or firmware that will make it work with those discs.
2007-10-09 10:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but a CD-RW drive can only write CDs, not DVD. While they look the same to us humans, they are actually very different. A CD drive can not read or write a DVD. You have to have a DVD drive.
2007-10-09 10:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
last week i tried doing the same thing several times, no success. my cd writer only wrote audio cds. someone here on yahoo answers told me that i need to buy a dvd writer. good luck.
2007-10-09 10:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will have to get a dvd writer...a cd writer only writes cds...and a dvd writer will only write dvds unless you get one that will write cds as well...be careful when looking...make sure you get one that will do both even though you already have a cd writer...
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