Windows XPHome /Roxio DVD burning

[Rosie]

I've just started trying to use the built-in burning capability, but it
will not write to a DVD+RW, I get a message saying 'The CD is not a
writable disc or is full'. I can, however, burn a CD-RW. Does XP allow
DVD writing? I can't find anything in the Help section.
This all started when I had to re-install XPHome+SP1 after my system
collapsed after getting a boot sector virus. Before I re-installed I had
been using Roxio Easy CD Creator 6 Drag to disc to burn files with a
Pioneer 106 and reading those files on an LG8160B with no problems, also
copying DVDs and burning with Nero 6.0.0.15 then reading OK on the LG.
After I re-installed, I can no longer read DVDs in the LG reader, it
just fails to see that a disk is in the drive, yet if I put a DVD in the
LG drive and start up Power DVD, although it won't auto start, I can get
it to play by telling it to go the LG reader. Also, the LG will auto
play a CDR and RW.
The media I use is 01ne DVD+RW and Arita DVD+R. Like I say, these worked
just fine before the re-install but not now. Could this be a missing
driver perhaps? The LG 8160B presumably has a driver within XP, I don't
recall needing to install any others. I couldn't get Roxio to work
either, so I uninstalled it, now trying to use XP built in burning
Any suggestions on this please? It's making my teeth itch!
Thanks.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Does XP allow DVD writing?

no, Windows XP does not burn DVD's. The next version of Windows, right now
Codenamed: Longhorn will include DVD writing.

 

[Rosie]

OK, thanks Chris, that confirmed my suspicions!
Anybody got any idea why my LG DVD reader no longer reads disks when it
used to before?
I did find something on the MS site
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;enus;818733&Product=winxp
which talks about udfs.sys. It seems I might have the 32 bit version but
not the 16bit which I need to read DVDs. However, the only way to get
the file is by applying to MS!