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*Edit: I've tried to break this up a bit to be easier on the eyes. Hope it helps.*
I was burning back ups of a 3 DVD set of discs I got Imported from Asia. Until late last night things worked fine I had the first two discs burned and had even watched some of the back ups to check quality (which was really good).
I had to set my anyDVD to region 2 which was a little weird as the discs were supposed to be all region.
I went to burn the third and last disc this afternoon and found my computer couldn't even read it (this problem was corrected previously with discs 1 & 2 by switching region setting in anyDVD). computer told me that the disc was not formatted, or corrupt, or using a format windows doesn't know.
I put in my originals of discs 1 and 2 to check this out and had the same problem, computer said they were not formatted.
Ok, I thought, maybe I need to use region 3 or something. I tried all regions through anyDVD with no luck. No, I don't have the latest version of AnyDVD but it worked before and I didn't go back to an older version of anyDVD.
Speaking if NTSC region coding, I eventually went into my device manager and changed the properties of the drive to region 2. After making this change and rebooting, I tried again without any luck. as a control, I put in a region 1 DVD I'd bought here in the States and it worked fine.
Now my drive was set to region 2 but it was still acting like region no matter how I had AnyDVD set, or even off.
Interestingly enough, the copies I made last night and this morning of dics 1 & 2 play fine in the computer and if I wanted I could make copies of them just not of the originals.
The only thing that has changed on my computer between the two times (working last night and not today) was that windows auto updater downloaded and installed "Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1" which doesn't seem like it should be a problem. and no, it didn't do it during a burn.
The original discs are of an animated show called "Slayers Next" it's in 4:3 MPEG2 claims NTSC region of ALL was manufactured by Fansnear Animation Inc. of Japan.
I have a Sony DVD RW DW-D18A drive on a pretty new system I've kept clean of spy/adware. I have a P4 3.8 GHZ with 512 MB RAM and up until now I've had very few problems.
I'd tell you all the media type I use and the speeds I burn at but what point is there when the computer won't even read the disc, not even to watch it.
The discs work fine in the DVD players I have hooked up to my TV's and one of those is even pretty picky. My better home player is a Toshiba SD-1800 and has no trouble with the original discs. before this morning/late last night my PC had never had a problem reading this disc either.
so what happened and how do I fix it? I'm very frustrated over this, some-one please help.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20. May 2005 @ 03:25
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