R Soul on 22/9/2008 at 20:15
I have a drive which can write to CDs and DVDs. CDs have never been a problem, and I've written to DVDs as well. But this is where things become confusing.
With DVDs, it's only been movies I've written to them, i.e. the things that will play on an ordinary DVD player. Today I finally got round to writing some files* to DVD, but it won't work. I get error messages saying things like "bad disc", "no disc", "drive is note write-enabled" etc. Reading the discs is no trouble.
My drive is a DVD-RAM drive, and discs I have are DVD+RW. Some sites say there are compatibility issues, which would make sense if it were not for the fact that I've written DVD movies to DVD+RW discs. If the drive can do that, why can't it write computer files? They're both 0s and 1s aren't they?
*3.5GB, so CDs aren't really an option.
theBlackman on 22/9/2008 at 21:03
Use DVD-R. Make certain your writer application is set to DATA to make the copies of your files.
R Soul on 22/9/2008 at 22:54
I've just noticed on the front of the drive it says "Super Multi", which apparently means it can deal with all formats. This makes things more confusing.
edit: I just tried again, without doing anything differently, and it's working now.
In other words: Never mind, I found it.
Thanks anyway.
