I have used DVD XCOPY XPRESS and a Sony Vaio latop with A Toshiba R6012 DVD -RW drive to successfully burn numerous backup copies of movie DVD's.
A short time ago I burned a disc using XCOPY - the process completed successfully but my laptop would not read the disc - in Windows Explorer it shows the disc as having 0 content and 0 free space and the drive tries to read the disc until it eventually just gives up.
Every attempt since then to copy a DVD has resulted in the same thing - a successful burn with an unreadable disc. I have tried numerous types of software - CloneDVD, DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter with the same result - the program states a successful burn but at the end the disc is unreadable. I have swapped the brand of media i've been using, with no change to the result.
This would seem to be a hardware problem - but the strange part is that I can still burn data onto DVD's using Drag'n Drop CD+DVD and the discs read fine!
The drive seems to be functioning in every single way - except allowing the copying of DVD's. Any thoughts about this problem?
Have you tied reading the "empty" discs in another PC?
Another possibility is that for some reason Drag'n Drop is now interfering with the process (as many packet writing apps have been known to do). Purely for testing purposes, you might try uninstalling Drag'n Drop and then try another run at doing a movie.
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Nephilim - the discs won't read on other PC's either.
I will uninstall Drag'n Drop and try again...
flip218 - I've been using Xcopy Xpress version 2.5.1
Do you have an idea of the best way to update the ASPI layer? There seem to be a range of views...
I came across a strange possibility. The problem first ocurred after I tried a new brand of DVD-R
from TDK. At this link,
it suggests that using these "high speed" media with incompatible drives may damage the lense. Wondering if this is possible or just far fetched considering the drive still burns CD's and Data DVD's fine...
No need to un-install any previous version. XCopy will just re-write the older versions. And don't worry about a aspi update till you try the newer versions.
I have the same problem. Thus it may be drive independent. I have a Liteon 451 and a Pioneer A06D, and Nero only writes empty DVD+RW's. (So those do not burn at all even though Nero says it burnt successfully).
DVD-R burns fine but in windows explorer and in Nero's session info, the drive seems empty.
In any DVD-ROM reader both on PC and MAC, these UDF/ISO dvd's are read fine, however.
I have the latest aspi, did the Nero clean reg check, have DMA enabled. Someone posted that his 'empty' problem was solved by downgrading to Nero 6.0.0.15 but this did not work for me.
Bottom line is, your problem is either common to a bug shared by multiple burning programs, or has to do with interference with Windows. I wish I knew which...
After further troubleshooting I now find that I can write DVD -RW's fine - but DVD -R's still come out unreadable on any PC for some reason. This is ok - just a little expensive in terms of media!
flip218 - Thanks very much for the links. Will try this. My firmware is the latest version.
Quote:After further troubleshooting I now find that I can write DVD -RW's fine - but DVD -R's still come out unreadable on any PC for some reason. This is ok - just a little expensive in terms of media!
Haplo99,
I had this problem once :) ... I solved it by updating my aspi layer. What O/S do you have? ForceASPI is an easy one. Hope that works for you :)
