I have been having a problem with my dvd drive recently, about one or two weeks. The drives on my computer play cd's but not all dvds. I dont think this is the same problem others are having, since my dvd will read all dvds, including ones that are burnt as backups. In these past two weeks I have backuped about six movies on to fujifilm, made from taiwan, dvd+r discs. I know they are crappy media, but my dvd reads 5 of them flawlessly but wont read the other one. It doesnt recognize the dvd, it just says( free space 0 bytes, total space 0 bytes). None of the softwares, Nero or Imgburn will recognize the dvd, they read it as empty.
So I dont think the problem is the dvd+r or its brand. Could it have anything to do with the burning software? Of the 5 movies, 4 where made using dvdfab, 1 using nero, and the one that wont work( is Imgburn). But imgburn is supposed to be a phenomenal program. My two drives are:
Philips DVD +-RW SDVD8820
HT1110G JVM023L SCSI CdRom Device
I remember reading somewhere I could try uninstalling my IDE channel that my dvd is on, and that it usually the second one. However when I checked under device manager I do not have a second channel. I just have these two under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers heading:
Primary IDE channel
Standard Dual channel PCI IDE controller.
Also my burn log for Imgburn showed that the operation was successful and then Imgburn verified the dvd, and it said operation failed. Does that mean Imgburn actually never burned the dvd? Maybe, because as I said before, when I put this disk back, Imgburn said empty disc. So I burned for the first time, or second time, onto this disc again, this time without the verification process. It showed me a successful burn again. And I think it did actually burn something the first time, or second, because my dvd drive does that layer of written information that burnt dvds are supposed to have. But no software or drive has recognized it as of yet.
I have the screenshot of the IDE channel, the Imgburn log that reads this dvd as a empty disc, three other logs that show this dvd's burning process, and the dvd drive that shows a empty drive. [img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner.Nacha/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/DVD%20Drive.JPG[/img]
[img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner.Nacha/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/IDE%20Channel.JPG[/img]
[img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner.Nacha/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/Imgburn1.JPG[/img]
[img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner.Nacha/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/Imgburn2.JPG[/img]
[img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner.Nacha/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/Imgburn3.JPG[/img]
[img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner.Nacha/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/Imgburn4.JPG[/img]
