DVD RAM Media

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Steve Schultz

I installed Windows XP SP2 last Friday. The install went
well. I am having a problem with my Toshiba DVD RAM
drive, P/N SD-W2002. When I place a DVD RAM disk into
the drive, Explorer says it is write protected, hence I
can't write to it. I booted the same PC with a hard
drive w/o SP2 and did not have this problem. In
addition, I have noticed that right clicking properties
on this drive in Explorer no longer gives me the format
option.

Any help will be appreciated.

Best regards,

Steve
 
Have you looked at properties of the drive and see if there's a recording
tab and if recording is enabled? Don't have a DVD but my cdrw has a
recording tab in properties with a checkbox for enabling recording.

I installed Windows XP SP2 last Friday. The install went
well. I am having a problem with my Toshiba DVD RAM
drive, P/N SD-W2002. When I place a DVD RAM disk into
the drive, Explorer says it is write protected, hence I
can't write to it. I booted the same PC with a hard
drive w/o SP2 and did not have this problem. In
addition, I have noticed that right clicking properties
on this drive in Explorer no longer gives me the format
option.

Any help will be appreciated.

Best regards,

Steve
 
Try removing the drive from Device Manager (Start-Run-Devmgmt.msc) and
reboot ;)
 
Similar problem. after loading xp sp2 i can no longer burn data to dvd using
windows explorer. I can burn movies to dvd using other manufacturer software
but not win exp. It will let me store temp files for burning but when i go to
write files to disk it does not recognized the dvd media.?? Already
uninstalled sp2, removed and resinstalled drive, searched for updated drivers
and firmware..
 
XP does not support writing to DVD Media. I would have to check about
DVD-RAM since that is slightly different, but it wouldn't surprise me if
that wasn't allowed either.

Were you actually able to do this before? If you were, was it possibly
a different software program you had installed that was doing the
writing and not actually Windows? I cannot be of too much help with
DVD-RAM since that is the only format I have not used.
 
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