Help please with my DVD recorder.

[robinjoan]

I use Roxio with my recorder, I download TV shows & movies, and burn
them to a CD-RW disk. After watching on my TV, I then go to erase the
disk so I can use it again. When I put some of the disks in the
recorder to erase them, a message states that there is no disc in the
recorder. Like I say, only some of the discs. The DVD-RW discs are
OK, the machine recognizes them. I have been trying to figure it out,
is it Roxio drag to disc that is causing the problem or what? I now
have 15 discs that I can't use. Hope somebody can figure this out.
Thank you
Bob K.

 

[FeMaster]

I use Roxio with my recorder, I download TV shows & movies, and burn
them to a CD-RW disk. After watching on my TV, I then go to erase the
disk so I can use it again. When I put some of the disks in the
recorder to erase them, a message states that there is no disc in the
recorder. Like I say, only some of the discs. The DVD-RW discs are
OK, the machine recognizes them. I have been trying to figure it out,
is it Roxio drag to disc that is causing the problem or what? I now
have 15 discs that I can't use. Hope somebody can figure this out.
Thank you

Personally, I'd dump Roxio and use another piece of software... Nero makes
for some nice burning software. Very functional with no problems (from my
experience.)

http://www.nero.com

 

[robinjoan]

I don't use Roxio for burning discs, that is not my problem. My
problem is I can't erase some of the CD-RW discs.
I also have a Creative disc writer, and when I pop the disc into this
unit, it comes up with the files that are on the disc, but I can't
erase the disc because it is "read only". I don't know how to get
around this. I am trying to find out if Roxio is at fault, or is it
my recorder. I hate to throw a perfectly good disc away when there is
a chance I can correct the problem.
Thank you,
Bob K.

 

[Guest]

You may need to update your software or reinstall it or the DLA, drag to disc
app if applicable.. Did you format the CD-RW's first with your drag to disc
app..?
See if you need an update here..
http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/software_updates/default.html
Try checking for similar posts or post your query here..
http://forums.support.roxio.com/
Or ask RoxAnn..
http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/default.html
Cheers..
j;-j

 

[Jim]

I use Roxio with my recorder, I download TV shows & movies, and burn
them to a CD-RW disk. After watching on my TV, I then go to erase the
disk so I can use it again. When I put some of the disks in the
recorder to erase them, a message states that there is no disc in the
recorder. Like I say, only some of the discs. The DVD-RW discs are
OK, the machine recognizes them. I have been trying to figure it out,
is it Roxio drag to disc that is causing the problem or what? I now
have 15 discs that I can't use. Hope somebody can figure this out.
Thank you
Bob K.

Your drive can handle DVD-RW but not necessarily CD-RW?
CD-RW disks are famous for being unreliable.
DVD-RW disks may also be unreliable as well.
Also, being able to handle DVD disks does not imply that it can hand CD
disks because there are separate lasers for the formats.
It looks to me like you have a marginal CD-RW writer in combination with
unreliable CD-RW disks. You can replace the writer, but there isn't much
you can do with the disks.
Software cannot fix such problems as I have described.
Jim

 

[Bullwinkle]

This type of problem has been surfacing for about two weeks now and a number
of people have reported a similar type of problem.

I, for example, Run a program called Backup Plus DVD and I have been running
it for about a year now. I use a rotating group of DVD's. All of a sudden
last week I got a report that I could not erase the disk as it is not a
DVD-RW disk. Reinstalling the program didn't help.

I read in an obscure blog that there is a virus circulating that damages CD
and DVD software. In this case the drivers.

My solution was to run a series of anti-virus and anti-spyware programs.
Cleaning out the registry using a good program and defragging the system
drive and the drive where the program resided.

Then going into Device manager and finding that all my USB devices suddenly
had yellow marks and asterisks. Removed them from device manager and letting
windows XP sp2 with all the updates current reinstall the drivers and
finally everything is ok.

There was a major virus assault on my machine at one time last week.

This may be the problem. I only know this is what I found and how I cured
it. I'd recommend you at least clean your machine and see if that helps.

Good luck Go slow.
Regards,