I have been using my dvd rw drive for well over a year and now all of a sudden when I put a blank dvd in, the drive changes into a cd drive and makes it impossible for me to burn it as a dvd. I have done some research but I have not been able to find a solution to my specific problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I had the same thing happen to me yesterday, and I found that it was because the file was too big and needed to be shrunk. After shrinking, it worked fine.
Just recently bought and installed a BenQ DW1650. Did one successful burn with it, now it won't read DVDs. When I insert a blank DVD into the drive, Windows Explorer tells me the drive is a CD drive, not a DVD-RW drive. The same thing is happening on my Lite-on DVD-RW drive too, and also on all my Daemon Tools virtual drives when i try to mount a DVD image. Checked my ASPI, everything is fine there. Used Q-Suite 2.1 to check the booktyping, everything is set to booktype to DVD-ROM.Both Q-Suite and Nero InfoTool give me the correct information about my drives and the media in them, and I can even burn discs using Nero 7. No way of checking whether the burns have worked or not, though.
Does anyone have ANY idea what the HELL is going on?!?
Nope, my only DVD players are the two on my 'puter.
Been experimenting though, and the burns WERE successful - can play the DVDs (and also DVD images on my virtual drives) by opening them from PowerDVD - PDVD recognizes my drives as what they are, it seems to be only Windows XP that won't recognize the drives properly.
When you insert a DVD the drive will change and show it as a CD drive in your computer, when you take the disk out it will show the drive as a DVD drive. This is just a quirk of XP because it does not support recognition of the media, the new Vista will correct it. Your DVD's will burn fine don't worry about it.
I'm still puzzled as to why this has only just started to happen recently, though. I had been using the auto-open dialog to open Nero upon insertion of blank media for as long as I can remember, so obviously XP used to recognize the media.
Yeah, my burns are fine, and I can play dvds by opening PowerDVD manually... but I'm lazy and want these programs to open automatically like they used to!!! *throws rattle out of pram*
