File system error 16389 with DVD

[Rick Vigran]

I have a Sony RE 710 G desktop running XP Media Center. It has a
double-layer DVD burner. The DVD drive has worked well for burning data to
CDs and also for burning DVDs (directly from an application). It will also
read CDs and DVDs without a problem; however, when I go to create a folder
on a blank DVD (DVD-R), I get an error message which does not occur when I
create a folder on a CD.



Error reads:



Unable to create the folder 'New Folder'.

File system error (16389)



This was the very first time that I tried to write data to a DVD (video
burning to DVD using Sony-supplied apps seems to work fine), so I do not
know if this would have been a problem since inception of using this
computer or not (using it about 2 months).



I have searched for this error code on MSKB and also on Google. It appears
several times but never related to this. I have done a system restore to
several days prior to when I noticed this. I have gone into Device Manager
and made sure the drive was write-enabled. I have had Windows search for
the best driver which is the one that is already installed with the system
and Dev. Manager says drive is working fine.



Any ideas about this? A computer-savvy friend said that a reinstall of XP
would probably work but I wanted to exhaust my options before doing that.



Thanks.

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[dvdnovice]

I see the same problem with a Lite-On
DVD+RW drive. Unfortunately, I think the problem is that Windows XP
does not support writable DVD media. The only information on
microsoft.com suggests that Windows Longhorn version will support
writing to DVD media. Until then I guess we have to use an application
such as Nero to write files to DVD+/-R.

Here's the MS page:

http://tinyurl.com/8pz3a

 

[David H. Lipman]

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[VanguardLH]

This is simple, but confusing. The built-in Windows XP "Writable
Folder" app cannot write to DVD media, only CD media!

So, the simple cure is to take the stupid DVD-R disk out of the drive
and put in a CD-R, if you need less than 700 Megs of storage. If you
need more storage, you will have to use a DVD-R, but you need to use
Roxio, Nero, or some other program with DVD burning capability to handle
the task.

Ok, I did spend more than a half an hour searching ms and the web for
the "cure", before I found a hint of it in this thread.

"me too" replies regarding your search results are superfluous, especially
for an ancient thread that is OVER 4 YEARS OLD. Next time notice the
datestamps.

http://forums.techarena.in

A leech site pretending to have forums by running a webnews-for-dummies
interface that submits improperly formatted posts through a gateway to
Usenet (aka newsgroups).