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Newer computers have USB 2.0 connections (sometimes just called "high speed"); it sounds like your computer has USB 1.1 or even 1.0 connections. You CAN upgrade the connection on a desktop computer (I did this a few months ago on mine) but I'm not sure about a laptop.
Before I upgraded to USB 2.0, I could still rip, encode, and burn, it just took a LOT longer, especially the encoding part. To give you an idea, with USB 1.1 ripping/encoding would normally take 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 hours and burning would take an additional 1-1/2 hours or so; with USB 2.0, ripping/encoding can be as fast as 5-6 minutes (if it's a DVD-5) up to about 1-3/4 hours if it's a huge DVD-9, then burning with 4x discs takes 15 minutes max. So the burning time went down significantly, and the ripping/encoding time went down a bit too.
Even with my old USB 1.1 connection, the DVDs I burned still worked. So it may not be your port that's the issue. Did you use good media? What did you use to rip/encode? What burning program did you use? Did you get a "successful burn" message at the end? Are you trying to play a DVD-R disc in a standalone player that only plays DVD+R discs? As you can see, there are lots of possible reasons the DVD doesn't work. Please give us more details on exactly what you did and we can be more helpful.
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Karen H.--Dell Optiplex GX240, P4 1.50ghz, 256mb RAM (yeah, I need more), Windows XP Pro w/SP1, 80gb c: drive (replaced the 20gb c: that crashed), 126gb i: drive, 124gb j: drive, 500gb external hard drive partitioned into k: and l: drives, Sony DDU1621/C1 DVD-ROM to rip/encode, Sony DRX-530UL to burn, new Sony DRX-840U to burn DL discs ... need a new computer to go with it!!
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