Hi everyone, lurker for years, but now with a problem I can't sort.
When I want to move video to my PC, I use my dvd recorder and a RW to do so. Bring up shrink, it *used to* scan, show me the length, etc., and put it into a VOB file. Now I constantly get "no disc" or just a blank panel on the right. If I put in a regular disc, scans it fine.
The disk was finalized in the recorder?
Same symptoms with other RW disks that have been recorded in the standalone?
Does Windows read the disk contents?
I would be inclined to uninstall the IDE channel that the burner was connected to and reboot (if it's an IDE burner).
My Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager
Expand 'IDE Controllers'.
Uninstall the Secondary (this assumes that the burner is IDE and is connected to the Secondary) then reboot.
That's the baffling thing, I've never had to finalize my RWs to move them to the PC. Shrink always read it fine, then I'd burn through Nero or just save to a VOB file w/o problems.
Though just now on a friend's computer their dvdshrink read it fine, actually scanned it in lightning time (faster than mine at home). Perhaps it's the dvd drive on my PC? Five years of use and scans much slower (and sometimes not at all).
Originally posted by glengary: And now getting home it's doing the same thing. Reading +R discs just fine, but not +RW like in my friend's. Don't know what to think.
What brand of media is it? Have you been using the same disc and rec/erasing it many times? If so, try a "Full Reformat", it worked for me - at least for a little while. I've been using some Memorex +RWs and they'd proved to be a bit unreliable after a few burns/erases.
Speaking of drives, the same +RW disc that was burned from my PC's LG writer seemed to play fine on my old JVCDVD player even though the manual says not compatible with +R medias, but it won't play (displays No Disc) when I burn it through the new TSST drive from my new laptop. Now I'm just using a bunch of new -RWs and the JVC DVD player reads/plays just fine.
