DVD RAM Media

[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

 

[abc]

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

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Try removing the drive from Device Manager (Start-Run-Devmgmt.msc) and
reboot

 

[Guest]

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..

 

[Nathan McNulty]

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.