DVD Burner not recognizing Blank DVD

[Dave]

Is your burner a -R, +R or +/-R? Some drives burn to -R media, some to +R
media and some will do either. You'll need to make sure the media disks
your using are compatible with your burner. Also, what software are you
using to burn it?

 

[Skirvinator]

Hi I am pretty much clueless on how to Burn anything, I just bought a
Metal Gear Sony Portable 16x dvd burner external usb2.0, when I tried
to burn a CD everything worked fine, however when I tried to burn a DVD
(first time) it would give me a message that the CD in drive is either
full or not a writeable CD, but it is, it is a DVD-R Memorex and it is
blank I never have had any type of Burner/writer so this is my First
time, can some one please help me? I use Windows XP. Thank you

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

XP has no built in DVD burning software so it cannot do this. You must use
third party burning software like Nero or Roxio.

 

[Skirvinator]

Hi dave,
the Burner is DVD-Rom, DVD+/-RW, CD-Rom, CD-RW.
I am not sure if I use a software, but what I do is, for example I want
to burn a Movie, I have a copy of the file saved on my harddrive, and
when I clik on it once it asked me to copy to cd, and I press ok, Then
I go into "my Computer" on my desktop, and select my E: Drive in which
the file shows in there and says this file is now ready to be burned on
CD when I click on that it opens another window, where I can enter a
name or leave it with the date that automaticley populates the box, and
click ok, at that point I get the error message that the CD is either
full or not writeable.
Thank you

 

[Kenneth J. Harris]

Did your new burner come with any CD/DVD software? Did you install it?

Ken