does not detect blank dvd's

[Guest]

Thanks all for reading. We installed Vista, did not like it there were to
many problems. One being we could no longer burn dvd because even with a
blank cd in the drive it said it was full. I removed Vista, reformatted the
computer, reinstalled everything and I am still having the same issue. I have
an lg cd/dvd combo drive. I have flashed the firmware, I have tried other
blank dvd's, I have even swapped the dvd drive for another one.

If I put a blank cd in the drive it recongizes it and allows us to burn to
it. I have insured the dma was an option.

It is a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC4480b drive. I have installed Power DVD and it
will now let us watch dvd's again. I have searched for a driver but cannot
find one. It is showing that it is the generic driver from Microsoft
5.1.2535.0.

Any help would be great
Thanks

 

[Rock]

Thanks all for reading. We installed Vista, did not like it there were to
many problems. One being we could no longer burn dvd because even with a
blank cd in the drive it said it was full. I removed Vista, reformatted
the
computer, reinstalled everything and I am still having the same issue. I
have
an lg cd/dvd combo drive. I have flashed the firmware, I have tried other
blank dvd's, I have even swapped the dvd drive for another one.

If I put a blank cd in the drive it recongizes it and allows us to burn to
it. I have insured the dma was an option.

It is a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC4480b drive. I have installed Power DVD and it
will now let us watch dvd's again. I have searched for a driver but cannot
find one. It is showing that it is the generic driver from Microsoft
5.1.2535.0.

Resources for troubleshooting DVD problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308012

 

[LVTravel]

The reason that your LG GCC-4480B combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM doesn't
recognize blank DVDs is that the drive is NOT capable of writing to DVDs as
it is a "Read Only Memory" device.

 

[Merlin]

The reason that your LG GCC-4480B combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM doesn't
recognize blank DVDs is that the drive is NOT capable of writing to DVDs
as it is a "Read Only Memory" device.




Windows XP has no built in ability to burn dvd's. You need third party
software for dvd burning.

 

[LVTravel]

Merlin, your post has absolutely no bearing on the OPs problem since the
DVD-ROM device can burn DVDs anyhow.

 

[Guest]

I have tried this link, thanks

Resources for troubleshooting DVD problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308012

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help, much appreciated.

The reason that your LG GCC-4480B combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM doesn't
recognize blank DVDs is that the drive is NOT capable of writing to DVDs as
it is a "Read Only Memory" device.

 

[LVTravel]

Should have been "can't burn" not "can burn" - sloppy fingers strike
again.....