Burning to DVD

[Guest]

I have an HP Pavilion computer using XP. I have in the past saved photos on
to DVD+R discs but now seem unable to do so. When I try to save with windows
I get the wizard up saying that either the disc is full or it is the wrong
type of disc. Insert a CD-R disc.
When I try to save using Sonic recordnow I am unable to get into the
programme.

I have tried system restore to no effect. I have even done a system
recovery. When I had just the system reloaded I checked and was able to burn
to disc from windows and could access Sonic recordnow and burn through that
programme. However as soon as I recovered my data from an external hard
drive using retrospect 6 the same situation returned.

I am at a loss as to know what to do next. HP seem to have no idea beyond
reloading all my programmes and losing the data.

 

[Steven Wabik]

are you trying to rewrite to the dvd or what?
give me more details and i'll help you.

 

[Pavel A.]

WinXP by itself can NOT record on DVD; you need some add-on software.
If your RecordNow came with your HP PC, download it again from
HP site and reinstall. This won't cause loss of your data.

--PA

 

[MAP]

I have an HP Pavilion computer using XP. I have in the past saved
photos on to DVD+R discs but now seem unable to do so. When I try to
save with windows I get the wizard up saying that either the disc is
full or it is the wrong type of disc. Insert a CD-R disc.
When I try to save using Sonic recordnow I am unable to get into the
programme.

I have tried system restore to no effect. I have even done a system
recovery. When I had just the system reloaded I checked and was able
to burn to disc from windows and could access Sonic recordnow and
burn through that programme. However as soon as I recovered my data
from an external hard drive using retrospect 6 the same situation
returned.

I am at a loss as to know what to do next. HP seem to have no idea
beyond reloading all my programmes and losing the data.

The Pavilion that I once owned(750n) had all of the preinstalled programs
like Sonic installed in a partition.All I had to do was uninstall via
add/remove
then go to all programs>HP System tools>then navigate to the program I
wanted to reinstall and click on it.

It should be similar for you as well,check it out.

 

[Guest]

Steve

I am trying to write to a DVD+R disc. I have done once and have made a
recovery disc.

 

[Guest]

I have tried to do this but I cannot delete sonic recordnow with add/remove
programmes.

 

[Steven Wabik]

i have not seen this issue in a long time.
can it atleast read to a CD or DVD.

try burning a CD or DVD with a different application if you have one.

what model number does your PC have?

i'll look more into this issue for you and tell you what i find.

 

[Guest]

Steve

I have done a system restore and reloaded my programmes. I am now able to
access sonic recordnow but it will not burn to a DVD+R disc. It asks for a
HL-DT-ST DVDRW9 disc.
I only want to use the facility to save photos to disc and relieve the
pressire on my hard drive.

 

[Guest]

steve

Sorry I did not include the PC reference it isa Pavilion 760uk product
number PN132AA-ABU

 

[Vrijesh]

Don't know if you have already tried this. In your post (below) yo
mentioned 'It asks for a HL-DT-ST DVDRW9 disc.' If so are you using
DVD+R5 disc (max 4.7GB) to try and write to? Because DVD9 disk are ma
8.5GB in size. If available, there will be an option on RecordNow t
change the type of disk to which you want to write. I use Nero and a
not familiar with Sonic RecordNow but I believe every recordin
software, if it supports DL (dual layer) writing, will give you th
option to choose the kind of DVD disc (DVD5 or DVD9) you wish to writ
to. See if you can change the disc type.

Just a thought...
VJ

 

[Andrew Murray]

Windows CD-Burning built-in utility doesn't support DVD-R's only CD-R's and
CD/R/RW's. Use Nero or Roxio etc for writing to DVD's.